Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has committed more than 500 crimes against the media. The occupiers killed more than 50 Ukrainian and foreign journalists, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Editorial offices in the temporarily occupied territories lost their buildings and received numerous threats, due to which they were forced to stop their activities, the situation with freedom of speech in Crimea has deteriorated critically.

"Russia deliberately isolates the occupied territories from the Ukrainian information space, instead it broadcasts its propaganda channels that discredit the Ukrainian state and the Defense Forces," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

The department called on the international community to increase pressure on Russia due to murders, torture and persecution of journalists.

"The media of the aggressor state should be deprived of the right to spread fakes about the war waged by the Russian Federation, not be able to hide the consequences of attacks on Ukrainian territory, to justify the death of the civilian population and the deliberate destruction of infrastructure and cultural objects of Ukraine," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summarized.