500 copies of the latest issue of the Bakhmut newspaper Vpered were distributed by volunteers at the indomitable points of the front-line city, Svitlana Ovcharenko, newspaper’s editor-in-chief, told the press service of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU).
With the support of the NUJU, newspaper’s publishing was resumed after a months-long break. Currently, the newspaper is published with a circulation of 3,000 copies, and with the help of volunteers and the city authorities, it is delivered to Bakhmut by various routes, where it is distributed together with humanitarian aid in basements and points of invincibility. The newspaper is also distributed in the Bakhmut hubs of Kyiv and Dnipro – cities with the largest number of immigrants from Bakhmut.
“You have no idea how important the newspaper is in Bakhmut! There is no information about what is happening in Ukraine and in the world, the feeling that everyone has abandoned you – and then the newspaper comes and tells everything! And above all, it tells about the fact that the whole world supports your city!” says volunteer chaplain Vadym Heiko.
The resumption of publishing newspapers in the de-occupied and front-line territories is one of the priorities in the NUJU team’s work. Currently, with the financial support of the NUJU and foreign benefactors, one or more issues of newspapers have been printed for Izium (Obrii Iziumshchyny), Lyman (Zoria), Barvinkove (Visti Barvinkivshchyny), Bakhmut (Vpered), Kherson (Novyi Den), Snihurivka (Visti Snihurivshchyny), Zolochiv (Zoria), Kharkiv (Selianska Hazeta), Zmiyiv (Visti Zmiyivshchyny), Blyzniuky (Nove Zhyttia), Bohodukhiv (Mayak), Kupiyansk (Visnyk Kupiyanshchyny), several more editions are on the schedule.
Video provided by Bakhmut volunteers
NUJU information service
