A meeting with journalist couple Alina Kravchenko and Oleksii Rokhman from Sievierodonetsk, who evacuated to Ivano-Frankivsk at the end of March, took place at the Ivano-Frankivsk Journalist Solidarity Center.
Internally displaced journalists told their colleagues the story of their departure from their hometown and how they found shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk, where they befriended the staff of the Journalist Solidarity Center.
“Thanks to the Center, we became friends, received not only material, but also moral support, became participants in many interesting events,” says Alina Kravchenko.
At the invitation of Sergiy Tomilenko, the President of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), the couple is currently working on a series of materials entitled Journalists are Important. Stories of Life and Work in War Conditions. The project supported by the Swedish human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders, tells the story of journalists whose lives were affected by the war, forcing them to leave their homes, cities, jobs, and friends.
Alina Kravchenko recorded more than 20 stories of her colleagues. Alina was most impressed by the story of her colleague Svitlana Obedinska, a journalist from Mariupol. This story will soon appear on the website and YouTube channel of the NUJU.
As earlier reported, the Journalist Solidarity Centers are an initiative of the NUJU, which is implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO. They are designed to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.
Contacts of the Journalist Solidarity Center in Ivano-Frankivsk: 066 677 0726 (Viktoriya Plakhta, the coordinator of the Ivano-Frankivsk-based Center), address: 25, Sichovykh Strilitsiv Street.
NUJU information service
