The newsroom of Putyvlski Vidomosti damaged twice by blast waves

The building housing the newsroom of the newspaper Putyvlski Vidomosti in the Sumy Region has been damaged twice by blast waves after being hit by enemy drones.

“We live on!” says Tetiana Kaushan, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, after cleaning up the damage caused by the enemy drone attack, which the border town is often subjected to. In an interview with the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) news service, the media worker confirms the team’s readiness to continue informing the newspaper’s readers and users on social networks despite the damage and all the enemy’s attempts to intimidate the civilian population and destroy the Ukrainian printed word.

“On ​​Friday, June 19, after lunch, the newsroom was busy, recording interviews, preparing other materials for publication in the newspaper,” says Tetiana Kaushan. “Shortly before the explosion, I left the building. Four Putyvl residents were injured near it. In the building where the newsroom is located, the glass in the windows was partially broken, the ceiling collapsed inside. Yesterday, June 24, a drone attacked the city center again, this time the front door was bent in the building. A teenager was injured near our building. But the main thing is that everyone is alive.”

Let us remind you: during January – May 2026, the NUJU monitoring counted 60 verified cases of the impact of russian attacks on civilian journalists, newsrooms and media infrastructure. In five months, at least 19 newsrooms of Ukrainian media suffered from the consequences of russian attacks, including two editorial buildings that were destroyed – this is the office of the publication Mezhivskyi Meridian (Mezhova, Dnipropetrovsk Region) and the newspaper Ridne Misto (Myrnohrad, Donetsk Region).

The newspaper Putyvlski Vidomosti is among the print publications supported by the Frontline Press program. This is a joint initiative of the NUJU and the Swedish Media Business Association (Tidningsutgivarna, TU), launched in late 2025 to support independent local and frontline newspapers operating in regions under constant russian shelling and information pressure. The six-month program includes 25 newsrooms from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk and other regions.

NUJU Information Service