Even before the full-scale Russian aggression, volunteer Liudmyla Huseinova distributed printed materials published by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) at Ukrainian checkpoints in Donbas. These editions aroused the great interest of residents.
She said about this during the roundtable entitled Current State Of Investigation Of Russia’s War Crimes Against Journalists.
“People, passing through checkpoints, because of the danger, hid these printed editions among their belongings and took them to the occupied territory,” Liudmyla said.
Since then, she has had to go through a lot. The volunteer spent three years in captivity, including in the infamous Isolation prison, where many prisoners were brutally tortured. Recently, it was successfully liberated.
“I just returned from a trip to the United States, where I had a lot of meetings. I took newspapers, which, with the assistance of the NUJU, began to be published in the de-occupied and front-line territories. They stayed at the universities of Washington and New York, New Jersey. The Ukrainian community in the United States also has copies of these newspapers. For them, this is an example of the fact that not only does Ukraine ask or demand something from other countries, but it also demonstrates its strength, ability to work and establish proper living conditions for people. This is an example that Ukraine is strong!” said the volunteer.
Reviving printed publications in the de-occupied and front-line territories, where there is often no Internet, mobile communication, or electricity, is one of the priority tasks for the NUJU. Thanks to the Union’s support, one edition of more than 20 local newspapers was published, most of which went to regular printing.
NUJU information service
