The State Committee of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting recorded 243 crimes by Russian aggressors against Ukrainian journalists and media. This was reported on the website of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting..

“As of April 27, 243 crimes against journalists and media were recorded in 16 regions of Ukraine. Russia committed the most crimes in Kyiv and the region. These are murders, injuries, disappearances, abductions, shelling of journalists and TV towers, threats, cybercrimes,” the report says..

It is also indicated that a large number of crimes were recorded in Zaporozhye and the Kherson region: some cities in these regions are occupied by the Russian army - there are cases of abductions, shelling of journalists, threats, cybercrimes, seizure of media editorial offices and shutdown of Ukrainian broadcasting.

“In total, during the war, seven journalists were killed while performing their professional duties, 15 were missing, 14 died as participants in hostilities or as a result of Russian shelling not while performing their professional duties, 9 were injured as a result of shelling by Russian invaders, 8.

In addition, 11 cases of shelling by Russian invaders of TV towers were recorded, which led to the disappearance of Ukrainian broadcasting..

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Earlier it was reported that as a result of a rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv, which occurred on April 28, Radio Liberty journalist Vera Girich died..