‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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My reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued – and then came the mysterious illness. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:00.5	This article contains some swearing.
1:05.0	You may have been poisoned, how an independent Russian journalist became a target,
1:11.0	by Elena Kostichenko.
1:20.0	I didn't want to write this for a long time. I feel disgusted, afraid, ashamed.
1:28.4	Even now, I can't write about everything I know because I have to protect the people who saved my life.
1:37.0	On the 24th of February 2022, my country attacked Ukraine.
1:50.2	The day of the invasion, I went to Ukraine on assignment from Nova Agazeta,
1:56.0	the independent Russian newspaper where I had been working for 17 years. I crossed the Polish-Ukraineian border on the night of the 25th of February.
2:01.0	Over the course of four weeks, thanks to the incredible support of countless
2:06.0	Ukrainians, I was able to file stories from the border, Odessa, Mikhailov and Hirsom.
2:14.0	Her son was underoccupation.
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