""At home, I never cry," she told DW in an exclusive interview after the event. "Only here, far away from home, I realize how much pressure I'm under, and how my normality is not normal elsewhere in Europe.""
""My instinct to report was stronger than my instinct to survive," she recalled."
""With every journalist killed, we lose a voice and a part of our democracy and freedom," said Barbara Massing, Director General of Deutsche Welle."
Liubov Sitak, 20, reports from the Sumy border region for Kordon.Media, a small independent outlet she joined two years ago. Her assignments take her to bombed villages and evacuation zones to document destruction, interview survivors, and verify casualties of Russian attacks. Sitak narrowly survived a rocket strike this spring when two rockets landed less than 200 meters from her while she filmed Red Cross volunteers evacuating civilians. She continues reporting despite the danger. A DW Akademie event in Brussels convened European policymakers and media experts to discuss sustaining Ukraine's independent media amid rampant Russian misinformation and dwindling funding. Since the invasion, 116 journalists have been killed, 18 while reporting.
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