A young Ukrainian journalist who said she "will never forgive Russia " was kidnapped by Putin's spies days after her car was shot at, it has been reported.
Colleagues of courageous Victoria Roshchina say she was snatched Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the notorious KGB, while reporting from the frontline of the invasion of Ukraine in the east and south of the country.
The publication for which she wrote, Hromadske, was informed of her detention by the FSB on March 16, the day after she was taken, but nothing has been seen or heard from her since.
A call has now gone out to the international community to expose further information and find Victoria - and get her home.
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In a statement, Hromadske's editorial office said: "We have made every effort to release the journalist in a private matter. But it turned out to be ineffective.
"Therefore, we call on the Ukrainian and international community to join in the information and actions to the release of Hromadske journalist Victoria Roshchina."
Victoria was investigating Russian military activity in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions before she was kidnapped, and had been in nearby Energodar where Putin's war machine has seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe.
Her plan had reportedly been to bravely travel to Mariupol, the city under siege where Ukrainians have been cut off from energy and water supplies, before colleagues lost all trace of her.
She was last seen 45 miles southwest of Mariupol in the port city of Berdyansk.
Victoria had last posted on Facebook on March 8, and described finding evidence of evil killings in a small village near Zaporizhzhia before her car was shot at and equipment stolen.
She wrote: "On the road, I saw a burned car, a little further - another with a burnt body of a man next to me."
All of a sudden, she said, a column of Russian tanks appeared daubed with the chilling white Z symbol.
Troops fired on her and her colleagues vehicle, despite it being marked with the word 'Press'.
She and her colleagues abandoned their car and hid in a field before brave civilians rescued them.
Upon returning to the car, her kit, including a laptop, camera and a backpack - as well as her cigarettes - were all missing and she and her colleagues made their escape on foot under the cover of night.
She wrote that "the scariest thing in the occupation is the night."
The writer went on: "In small villages and cities, the invaders feel themselves 'heroes' - shoot at civilians, set fire to cars, kill, loot.
"They turn people's lives into hell, traumatising children's psyche. They've taken my tech, but they won't take away the desire to tell the truth of their crimes.
"This time I was probably saved by a miracle. But I will never forgive Russia. Never.
"They will burn in hell. And will definitely be brought to justice."
