Russia’s attack on Ukraine is causing an escalating humanitarian crisis, with civilians killed in air strikes and missile attacks, more than two million fleeing the country and hundreds of thousands left without food, water or power and CPJ Executive Director Robert Mahoney warned that Vladimir Putin has plunged Russia into an information dark age. Journalists covering the invasion face particular threats to their safety as they report on the conflict.
Meanwhile, at least 150 Russian journalists are believed to have left the country in the face of Moscow’s crackdown on independent Russian media.
More from CPJ’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war:
- ‘Not just statistics’: Ukrainian journalists report amid missiles, misinformation and online attacks
- Dozhd TV editor Tikhon Dzyadko on why he fled Russia and shut his broadcaster down
- ‘There will be more repression’: Russian journalist Irina Borogan on Moscow censorship
- ‘Sirens in Lviv’: Ukrainian journalists tweet about the war
Read more at cpj.org/invasion-of-ukraine
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