THE NATIONAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE
Emergency and rescue operations have been completed in Zaporizhzhia after airstrikes carried out by russian troops on November 7. As a result of the attack on the city, ten people were killed, including one child; 41 people were injured, including four children.
On November 8, a Day of Mourning was declared in the city.
Journalists from local and all-Ukrainian media worked at the site of the flight for two days to show the consequences of the russian attack.
“Recently, Zaporizhzhia has been suffering greatly from the strikes of guided aerial bombs. Unfortunately, for journalists, this is also a great burden and stress, but you need to pull yourself together and turn on professionalism. You have to put emotions aside and work. At the same time, you need to respond to alarms because you cannot forget that you also need to protect yourself. The enemy is destroying civilian structures and repeatedly striking the same objects. Our work is very important because we have to show what the enemy is doing. People are being killed every day, and the whole world should know about all these atrocities committed by russia,” notes Olena Kaptiukh, a journalist for the TV channel We Are Ukraine.
Call the Zaporizhzhia JSC at 096 277 5352 (Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura, the Zaporizhzhia JSC coordinators). The Center’s address is 152 Sobornyi Avenue.
ABOUT JSC
The Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO. The initiative is designated to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.
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Zaporizhzhia JSC information service
Photo by Dariya Zyrianova
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