[4] Victoria Roshchyna began working as a journalist when she was a teenager, covering court decisions and crime.

[8] On 11 March Roshchyna was detained in Berdiansk by the Russian Federal Security Service for ten days.

[12] In July 2023, Roshchyna went to Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, possibly to report on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis and the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam.

[4] Sevgil Musayeva, her editor at Ukrainska Pravda, and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine called for her immediate release.

[6] According to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Roshchyna was on a prisoner exchange list and was being held in the Russian city of Taganrog.

[2][17] The Ukrainian NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights also said that she had been held in penal colony number 77 in Berdiansk prior to her transfer to pre-trial detention centre #2 in Taganrog.

[20][21] Reporters Without Borders, the IWMF,[22] the European Union,[23] and the Committee to Protect Journalists[19] called for an investigation into her death and detention.

On 11 October, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced it was treating her disappearance as a potential murder and a war crime.