Russian journalist Oksana Baulina died after a rocket strike on a shopping center in Kyiv

The Insider, an independent Russian news site, said in a statement that a Russian journalist died in a Russian airstrike on a shopping center.

Oksana Baulina, a reporter for The Independent, was in Ukraine filming the destruction of Russian shelling in the Podil neighborhood. Two people were killed and two others were injured in a rocket strike at a shopping center.

The Russian news site The Insider expressed its deepest sympathies to Oksana's family and friends.

Baulina worked for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, formed by Navalny, before joining the Russian news site. She continued to report on government corruption at The Insider after leaving the Moscow-based non-profit.

She started her journalism career working for lifestyle publications such as Time Out Moscow and InStyle.

Baulina was described as a journalist by an investigations editor at Russian news website Meduza.

I first met Oksana at Time Out Moscow in 2006 where she edited the fashion section, and she went on to become an opposition activist, human rights campaigner and full-time reporter. He said that she was arrested several times.

She was always at the front of the picket line and always directing her energy to the righteous causes.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Baulina is one of several journalists who have died or been injured while covering the Russian military assault on Ukraine.