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A damaged five-star Kharkiv Palace hotel after Russian missile attack on December 31, 2023, in … More Kharkiv, Ukraine. As a result of the night attack, the building of the five-star Kharkiv Palace hotel was damaged, as well as cars parked on the street nearby. (Photo credit: Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images In May 2025, Reporters without Borders (RSF) and Truth Hounds, both non-governmental organizations, published a report on the deliberate attacks on journalists by the Kremlin, “Last check-in: The Russian strikes on Ukrainian hotels silencing the press.” As the report outlines, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, both Ukrainian and foreign journalists have come under Russian fire, even in their hotels. As the research shows, between February 24, 2022 and March 15, 2025, Russia conducted 31 strikes on 25 Ukrainian hotels, mostly in regions near the front line, including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro, Odessa, and Kyiv, the capital. As the report suggests, only one of these hotels was being used for military purposes, and all others were civilian objects. In total, 25 journalists and media professionals have found themselves under these hotel bombings. At least seven have been injured. One person, Reuters’ safety advisor Ryan Evans, was killed during a strike on his hotel in August 2024 in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. As the report concludes, Russian strikes on civilian hotels in Ukraine are clearly aimed at obstructing independent war coverage. It further explains that, as the war progressed, such attacks have multiplied with eight in 2022, five in 2023, 14 in 2024, and four in the first two months of 2025. The report further identified emerging trends from such attacks, including that the majority of the attacks (or 27 out of 31) took place near the…

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