Tetiana Tsyrulnik - Justice for Journalists

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Tetiana Tsyrulnik

Affiliated media: Kolo, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: May 9, 2023

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Online media Poltavschyna

Location: Ukraine, Poltava Oblast, Poltava

Additional information:

On May 9, city residents laid flowers at the Soldier’s Glory Memorial. Journalist Tetiana Tsyrulnik was covering the event. Afterwards, an unidentified man aggressively demanded that the journalist leave, started pushing her out and hit her in the face. Poltava police opened criminal proceedings over violence against the journalist.