Russian journalist and film critic Ekaterina Barabach, who risked up to ten years in prison for denouncing the war in Ukraine, was exfiltrated from her country to France by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), the NGO announced on Monday at a press conference in its presence.
“Thank you all for your support,” said the journalist at RSF headquarters in Paris. She said she had to resolve to leave her 96 -year -old mother to carry out her Russian flight. The Russian federal prison service announced on April 21 that Ms. Barabach, 64, was placed on the list of people wanted.
The journalist, born in Kharkiv under the USSR (in current Ukraine), had virledly criticized the offensive of Russia led to her Ukrainian neighbor since February 2022. “Then, bunch of bastards, you bombed (Ukraine), shaved from whole cities, killed a hundred children, killed by peaceful people, of people of a normal life, forced to go abroad? ”, She said in a publication cited by the independent media MEDUZA. She risked up to 10 years in prison.
