Oksana Baulina

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktorovna and the family name is Baulina.

Oksana Baulina

Oksana Viktorovna Baulina (Russian: Оксана Викторовна Баулина; November 1, 1979 – March 23, 2022) was a Russian journalist killed working for investigative outfit The Insider in Kyiv during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine while reporting on the consequences of the Kyiv shopping centre bombing. She had official accreditation from the Ukrainian armed forces and died during a mortar strike on a shopping center. Another civilian was killed in the same attack, and two others were injured.

Baulina, once a fashion editor at Time Out Moscow, became an activist with Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2016. She emigrated to Poland shortly before the organization was branded extremist by the Russian government. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was based in Warsaw, and during the invasion had reported from Kyiv and Lviv. Her final work included interviews with Russian prisoners of war, whom she let call home using her cell phone.

The killing of Oksana Baulina was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on 24 March.  According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed journalist, Baulina is the 8th media professional killed in Ukraine in 2022.