The Pulitzer prizes have honoured the journalists of Ukraine with a special citation hailing the country’s reporters for the “courage, endurance and commitment to truthful reporting” that they have shown since the Russian invasion.
“The Pulitzer prize board is pleased to award a special citation to the journalists of Ukraine for their courage, endurance and commitment to truthful reporting during Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia,” said prize administrator Marjorie Miller.
The Pulitzer board wrote: “Despite bombardment, abductions, occupation, and even deaths in their ranks, they have persisted in their effort to provide an accurate picture of a terrible reality, doing honour to Ukraine and to journalists around the world.”
At least seven journalists, including three from Ukraine, have been killed since Russian forces invaded on 24 February, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Among them was Vira Hyrych, a reporter for Radio Liberty who died after a Russian missile hit her Kyiv apartment building on 29 April.
On 4 May, Oleksandr Makhov, a Ukrainian television reporter who joined the country’s armed forces, was killed while fighting Russian forces in the north-eastern city of Izyum, according to Reuters.
In 2021, the Pulitzers granted their special citation to reporters in Afghanistan who reported on the impact that years of war were having on the country and its residents.
