Olga Tokariuk
olgatokariuk.bsky.social
Olga Tokariuk
@olgatokariuk.bsky.social
Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
'Europe—which includes the E.U. and the U.K.—cannot just react when their house is on fire. It is becoming increasingly clear it cannot trust the Trump Administration to bring the war in Ukraine to an outcome which is favorable'
My latest for TIME
time.com/7336513/trum...
Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe
Fortunately, there is a new 19-point plan. But Europe must stop outsourcing its diplomacy to Washington, writes Olga Tokariuk.
time.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Ukrainian Institute in London, which is doing so much for promoting Ukrainian culture, is hosting a fundraising evening on June 25, featuring @oliahercules.bsky.social, Felicity Spector and many others, including me! Please come join us, tickets here
www.tickettailor.com/events/ukrai...
Select tickets – From soil to soul: a fundraising evening for Ukrainian Institute London – Bishopsgate Institute
At the Ukrainian Institute London, we have a dream: to establish Ukraine House — a dynamic centre for education, culture, and c...
www.tickettailor.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you are in London, please go and see this powerful performance running at Arcola Theatre until 28 June. The Reckoning is an impressive reminder of Russia's crimes committed in Ukraine and of the work of journalists who collect witnesses' testimonies
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/the...
The Reckoning
Written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton, The Reckoning is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth...
www.arcolatheatre.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People who call it 'escalation' when Ukrainian drones hit legitimate military targets in Russia, never mention that Russian drones are deliberately hunting and killing Ukrainian civilians. Russian bombers apparently deserve protection more than the Ukrainian people
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Hunted From Above
The 93-page report, “Hunted From Above: Russia’s Use of Drones to Attack Civilians in Kherson, Ukraine” and an accompanying web feature, document how Russian forces appear to be deliberately or reckle...
www.hrw.org
June 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Putin said he will have to bomb Ukraine even more - and Trump didn't contradict him. That's all you need to know
June 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Here's your reminder that the planes Putin complained to Trump about were used by Russia to bomb Ukrainian civilians and kill at least 20,000 people in Mariupol alone. Ukraine had every right to destroy them and protect its civilians
cepa.org/article/ukra...
Ukraine’s ‘Trojan Horse’ Strike Scorches Putin
An extraordinary Ukrainian covert drone operation has left many Russian strategic bombers in flames and analysts reaching for superlatives.
cepa.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The new Pope Leo XIV chose Ukrainian president Zelenskyy for his first call to a foreign leader: very welcome news and hopefully a precursor to a more grounded in reality position of the Catholic church re Russia's war on Ukraine
May 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I spoke to @abcnewsbot.bsky.social Radio National about my former colleague, Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who was illegally arrested on the occupied territories, tortured and murdered in a Russian prison. Russia's war crimes cannot go unpunished
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Growing outrage at brutal murder of Ukrainian journalist - ABC listen
Evidence is emerging that a young Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity last year, days before she was due to be exchanged in a prisoner swap, was tortured. Viktoriia Roshcyna, 27, had t...
www.abc.net.au
May 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.

Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
It is chilling. Viktoria Roshchyna was the bravest of journalists, willing to risk torture & death to "remain faithful to our mission, to convey the truth to the world” about Russia's occupation. For those who wonder why Ukrainians fight, and even for those who know why, this is necessary reading. 👇
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Read what was done to this young journalist in Russian captivity. And then think about what it means for Trump to look at Zelensky and say to Americans: "You see the hatred he's got for Putin. It's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hatred. He's got tremendous hatred.”
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
The story about the life and death of journalist Viktoria #Roshchyna, killed by #Putin‘s men / #Russia, must be told again, and again, and again.
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
⚡️ Viktoriia Project: a story of captivity and torture endured by journalist Roshchyna and thousands of Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia
Viktoriia Project: a story of captivity and torture endured by journalist Roshchyna and thousands of Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia
Content #757 VIKTORIIA’S PATH TORTURE IN MELITOPOL TAGANROG AND STARVATION HOW THE SYSTEM WAS PREPARING TO RECEIVE PRISONERS This text is part of the international Viktoriia Project, lau...
www.pravda.com.ua
April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
“the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.”

‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

I’m out of words.
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
NEW: Russia is once again preparing to escalate the forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children during the upcoming summer months. (1/3)

Russian Occupation Update, April 28, 2025: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Also: it wasn't Putin who killed Viktoria Roshchyna. Someone in the Russian prison system did it, having a licence to kill from the top. The perpetrators of this terrible crime must be identified, found and brought to justice. We, people who knew and loved Viktoria, will make sure this happens
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Spontaneous applause for Ukrainian President Zelenskyi at the funeral of Pope today in Rome. russia wants to convince us that we're all alone in this fight. We are not.
Video: Acyn Twitter.
April 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
'There are fewer than 10 air defence systems in Ukraine – this is simply not enough. Recently,Ukraine’s president made a request to the US to buy – not to be given – 10 additional Patriot systems.Trump treated it as a joke, as an example of Ukrainian warmongering'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk
At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending it, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.
April 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Pavlohrad. Russia struck an apartment building, killing at least 3 people and injuring 14 others, including 3 children.

It turns out "Vladimir, STOP" isn't working. What now?
April 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Ok, again. In 2014, when russia launched its invasion, Ukraine held official non-aligned status enshrined in law. Ukraine was a neutral country.

This war did not begin because of Ukraine’s NATO aspirations. It started and continues because russia seeks to restore its empire.
April 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
🕯️ Kyiv neurologist Yaroslav Kozlov lost both of his children, 21-year-old Nikita and 19-year-old Sofiia, during Russia’s missile attack on the capital on April 24.
Kyiv Neurologist Loses Both Children, Aged 19 and 21, in Russian Missile Strike on April 24
Kyiv neurologist Yaroslav Kozlov tragically lost both children in a missile strike on April 24, as confirmed by the Taras Shevchenko National University.
united24media.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reposted by Olga Tokariuk
Kyiv mourns 12 killed in violent Russian attack. Largest flag lowered in their memory
April 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM