Russian Missile Strikes Kill Vira Hyrych, Journalist With Ukraine’s Radio Liberty

Overnight Russian Missile strikes at Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday have killed a journalist at Ukraine’s Radio Liberty, Vira Hyrych.

BBC reports said the 55-year-old Journalist was killed in one of several Russian missile strikes on Kyiv on Thursday, the station says

Vira Hyrych, who was killed when a missile struck her home, was described as “a bright and kind person, a true professional”

Vira Hyrych was a 55-year-old Ukrainian journalist for US-funded broadcaster Radio Liberty, which described her as “a true professional”.

Her body was discovered this (Friday) morning after a missile struck her home in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Thursday, according to a statement by the radio station.

“A wonderful person is gone,” her colleague Oleksandr Demchenko said on Facebook.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was meeting Ukraine’s President Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital at the time of the attacks

Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to humiliate the UN

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials say an operation is planned to get civilians out of the Azovstal steel plant today

And two UK aid workers in Ukraine have been captured by the Russian military, an aid organisation says

Nato Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana has told the BBC that it could be years before the Ukraine war is over