She had disappeared from her home on April 13, when she was under house arrest as part of an investigation for disseminating “false information” on the Russian army. This measure had been ordered by a Moscow court after the arrest of Ms. Barabach at the end of February.
The journalist, born in Kharkiv under the USSR in present -day Ukraine), had virledly criticized the offensive of Russia led to her Ukrainian neighbor since February 2022.
“So, a bunch of bastards, you bombed (Ukraine), shaved whole cities, killed a hundred children, shot dead from peaceful people, maintained Marioupol under blockade, deprived of millions of people of a normal life, forced to go abroad?”, She said in a publication cited by the independent media MEDUZA.
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She risked up to ten years in prison.
In October 2022, RSF had already organized the escape of another Russian journalist, Marina Ovsiannikova, who faced ten years in prison after having brandished an anti-war sign on state television.
