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Yevheniia Motorevska
Head of War Crimes Investigations UnitYevheniia Motorevska leads the War Crimes Investigations Unit of the Kyiv Independent. She has been working in investigative journalism for over eight years. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske and headed the video department of the investigative journalism agency Slidstvo.Info. Prior to the onset of the full-scale war, she had been investigating corruption and abuse of power within the judicial and law enforcement systems.
Articles
Ukraine destroys 80% of Russian drones despite air defense missile shortage, Syrskyi says
Ukraine needs to have many times more surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft missile systems to ensure reliable defense of cities and critical infrastructure facilities, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
Russia seeks to advance along almost entire eastern front, Ukraine holding ground in Kursk Oblast, Syrskyi says
As of mid-June, Ukrainian defenders are fighting close to 695,000 Russian troops in Ukraine across a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) front, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
Ukraine's deep strikes cost Russia over $10 billion this year, Syrskyi says
This includes $1.3 billion in direct damage. The estimated cost-to-result ratio of Ukrainian deep strikes is 1:15, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told journalists on June 21.
Investigation: Uncovering the secret Russian FSB operation to loot Ukraine's museums
Editor's note: This story is based on the Kyiv Independent's investigative documentary, "Curated Theft" – watch it in English here, for free.
As Ukraine's liberating forces advanced in the fall of 2022, several trucks stopped near the rear yard of the Kherson Local History Museum. Inside the building itself, dozens of people moved back and forth like ants through the corridors.
These people didn't work there — they were employees from museums in occupied Crimea who, on the instructions of the
Kyiv Independent identifies high-ranking Russian officer, officials involved in looting of museums in southern Ukraine
Fleeing a Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces collectively stole more than 33,000 historical artifacts and works of art. This museum theft is the largest in Europe since World War II.
Russia’s looting of history is a theft of who we are
I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an investigation into the illegal export of artifacts from Kherson to occupied Crimea by Russian forces amid the full-scale war. Over 33,000 works of art and historical artifacts had been stolen from local museums in the fall of 2022, just before the city was liberated from Russian occupation by the Ukrainian mi
Inside a prison where Russia tortured Ukrainian POWs. Investigation by the Kyiv Independent
Among the Russian camps for Ukrainian prisoners of war, the most notorious one is Olenivka, in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast. This prison-turned-camp became infamous due to reports of abuse and torture inflicted upon its prisoners. Who runs this prison?
