Front-line journalist Yevheniya Nazarova: “My last years are roads alone. Their number equals the one in my entire previous life”

In February 2025, Yevheniya Nazarova celebrates a kind of anniversary. Ten years ago, in February 2015, she started working as a correspondent for Radio Liberty.

Journalistic solidarity, and support of colleagues – she felt their strength and importance on her own example. And that is why she always helps others and maintains ties with the Zaporizhzhia Journalists’ Solidarity Center. As a front-line correspondent, she comes here with her colleagues to meet with local media workers and participates in training sessions. Not as often as she would like – in the city and on the Zaporizhzhia Axis, it is difficult and restless now, so both she and her colleagues have to travel a lot to prepare reports. But, as Yevheniya notes, it is good that there is such a Center where you can come for support; even the very awareness of this means a lot to Zaporizhzhia journalists.

Yevheniya has been in the war since her first days. She had to report under shelling, on the contact line, in front-line communities, and on the ruins of residential areas of her hometown after rocket attacks, guided bombs, and Shahed drones… Seeing the dead, grief, tears, running, and falling, and interviewing soldiers directly in the trenches, feeling their support, strength, and indomitability. All this has now become her journalistic routine.

Yevheniya Nazarova is a scientist by profession, a candidate of historical sciences, who once, by coincidence, got into journalism and has never regretted it. But that knowledge helps her objectively assess the situation, understand everything that is happening, and select the necessary material.

The network of Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, implemented in collaboration with the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO and with the support of the People of Japan. Our primary goal is to assist media professionals working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers are active in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. The project is part of UNESCO’s broader efforts to support the Safety of Journalists and Freedom of Expression in Ukraine.

Call the Zaporizhzhia JSC at 096 277 5352 (Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura, coordinators of the Zaporizhzhia JSC). The Center’s address is 152 Sobornyi Avenue.

Valentyna Bystrova

Photo by Dariya Zyrianova and from Yevheniya Nazarova’s archive