Victoria Roshchyna

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Volodymyrivna and the family name is Roshchyna.

Victoria Roshchyna
Вікторія Рощина
Born
Victoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna

(1996-10-06)6 October 1996
Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine
Died19 September 2024(2024-09-19) (aged 27)
SIZO-3, Kizel, Perm Krai, Russia
Cause of deathDisputed
  • Murder by strangulation (Ukrainian claim)
  • Heart failure (Russian claim)
OccupationJournalist

Victoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (Ukrainian: Вікторія Володимирівна Рощина; 6 October 1996 – 19 September 2024) was a Ukrainian journalist who reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Siege of Mariupol. She was a recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's 2022 Courage in Journalism Award.

Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023, and in October 2024 was confirmed to have died in Russian detention. When Roshchyna's body was returned to Ukraine, it bore signs of torture, strangulation and had some organs removed. The Ukrainian government announced it would investigate her death as a potential murder and war crime.

On 24 September 2025, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office informed that Roshchyna died on 19 September 2024 in the detention centre No. 3 (SIZO No. 3) in the city of Kizel in Perm Krai, Russia.


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