For the second time in a year, russians shell journalist Yevheniya Virlych’s apartment

In Kherson, the apartment of the journalist and editor-in-chief of the publication Kavun.City, Yevheniya Virlych, was damaged by russian shelling. The journalist reported this on her social networks.

In a comment to the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), she said that the area where the apartment is located is under constant attacks – russian drones regularly fly there, and mortars operate. Fortunately, no people were injured during this shelling, but the apartment was damaged.

“My neighborhood in Kherson is being shelled very densely… We are all psychologically damaged,” the journalist notes.

This is the second time in a year that a russian attack has destroyed a journalist’s apartment.

In June 2025, during a massive russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv, the apartment where Yevheniya Virlych was temporarily living was damaged. A powerful blast wave broke windows and damaged the house. The journalist received cuts from the glass, and doctors diagnosed a possible concussion.

At that time, Virlych said that she was standing with her back to the balcony when the blast wave sent shards of glass flying into the room. One of them got tangled in her hair – according to the journalist, this is what could have saved her life.

After the shelling, the media woman spent several days recovering from the concussion and restoring the damaged house: the broken windows were temporarily covered with plates, and colleagues and friends supported her financially and morally.

The new shelling, which again damaged her house – this time in Kherson – once again shows that Ukrainian journalists work and live under constant threat of russian attacks.

NUJU Information Service