Photo by Martin Kuz ( Editor's note: Martin Kuz, a freelance journalist with whom I worked at Hearst Newspapers, returned recently from his latest reporting trip to Ukraine. Among the pieces he filed for his Substack readers was the tragic story of journalist Victoriia Roshchyna). by Martin Kuz A wreath of wheat hangs over the grave of Viktoriia Roshchyna in a cemetery in the heart of Kyiv. The golden ring hovers like the sun above a framed portrait of the murdered journalist

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