At least 567 crimes and violations have been committed against journalists and the media in Ukraine, in occupied territories by Russia in the last two years.
According to a monitoring report by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, at least 70 media workers have been killed.
"In the two years of the war, Russia killed a total of 70 media workers in Ukraine. 10 of them died while reporting, 47 were killed as combatants, 13 died by Russian shelling or torture," the report says.
"In the 10 years since the start of the Russo–Ukrainian war (2014–2024), a total of 77 Ukrainian and foreign media workers died; 13 of them were killed while reporting."
About 18 per cent of Ukrainian territory is occupied by the Russian armed forces, including the autonomous republic of Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014, parts of the Donetsk region and most of Luhansk region, and parts of Kherson, Mykolayiv, and Zaporizhzhya regions that were invaded in 2022
