Award-winning Ukrainian freelance journalist and RFE/RL contributor Viktoria Roshchyna has been missing since she went on a reporting trip to Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine more than two months ago.
More than 26,000 people have gone missing almost half of them civilians since the start of Russia's unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Tymchenko told state television on October 5.
Imprisoned Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for 25 days for twice being in bed during the daytime, which is considered a violation of penitentiary policy.