KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th June, 2019) Ukraine's National Union of Journalists said in a statement on Wednesday that it had registered seven attacks on media reporters in May.
"In May, seven incidents of physical aggression [against reporters] were recorded ... One reporter has been in coma for a month already ... In May, two attacks on media employees occurred in Odessa, as well as one each in Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, Kherson and Volhynia," the statement said.
In addition, the journalists' union said that 30 media workers had been assaulted in the country since the beginning of the year.
Ukraine has recently faced criticism over its crackdown on its own as well as foreign journalists. Among them are RIA Novosti Ukraine portal head Kirill Vyshinsky, who has been in custody since last May on suspicion of treason and supporting the breakaway republics of Donbas, and Moscow-based correspondent Marc Innaro, who was denied entry to Ukraine in March.
Two others are Igor Guzhva, the editor-in-chief of Kiev-based news website Strana.ua, who was detained in Kiev in 2017, and journalist Vasily Muravitsky, who was accused of treason for his publications.
