Oksana Baulina

Baulina, once a fashion editor at Time Out Moscow, became an activist with Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2016. She emigrated to Poland shortly before the organization was branded extremist by the Russian government. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was based in Warsaw, and during the invasion had reported from Kyiv and Lviv. Her final work included interviews with Russian prisoners of war, whom she let call home using her cell phone.

The killing of Oksana Baulina^[2] was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on 24 March.  According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed journalist, Baulina was the 8th media professional killed in Ukraine in 2022.