Dmytro Khylyuk

Dmytro Khyliuk is a Ukrainian journalist and employee of the UNIAN news agency. He has been working in journalism for about 20 years. He has worked as a correspondent for Context Media, RBC-Ukraine, Independent News Bureau, ForUm, and News24UA. Since December 2013, he has been a correspondent for the UNIAN news production group, focusing on reporting from courts and law enforcement agencies. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion in March 2022, Dmytro Khyliuk was taken prisoner by Russia and is now a civilian hostage of the Russian Federation. More about his captivity: On March 1, 2022, Dmytro posted on his Facebook page that the village of Kozarovychi, where he lives with his family, had been occupied and that the settlements on the left bank of the Irpin River had been cut off from the capital. According to residents, the journalist and his father were detained on March 4. They were held at a Russian base near their home. His father was later released, but Dmytro remains in captivity. The official status of the UNIAN journalist is a civilian hostage. Russia claims that Dmytro Khyliuk, whom they have been illegally detaining for four years, is in “satisfactory” condition. Currently, details about his whereabouts and conditions of detention are unknown.