Valeriya is an investigative journalist at Radio Liberty's Schemes investigative project focused on high-level corruption and war crimes.

Winner of the KyivPost Top 30 Under 30 award (2019). Winner of the National Competition of Investigative and Special Reports at the Mezhyhirya Festival (2018). Winner of the V. Sergienko Investigative Journalism Competition (2017). Finalist in a number of Ukrainian and foreign journalism competitions.

Winner of the Tears of the Occupier special nomination in the Honour of the Profession competition (2022). In 2023, the investigation by Valeria Yegoshyna and Kira Tolstyakova ‘How did volunteers massively bury civilians and which Russian military killed in Izium?’ received a special Certificate of Excellence in the final of the Global Shining Light Award 2023 from the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). In 2024, she won the prestigious ICFJ Knight Awards. She has a degree in sociology.

Basic information

Name
Valeriya Yegoshyna
Title
Investigative journalist
Country
Ukraine
City
Kyiv
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Supported projects

Overpriced Ammunition

  • Armed conflict
  • Corruption
  • Industry

PRAGUE - In this months-long cross-border investigation, a team of six journalists looked into the Czech Ammunition Initiative - an initiative set up in early 2024 to supply Ukraine with a steady flow of artillery ammunition, to investigate allegations of high costs, poor quality shells and conflicts of interest.

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Overpriced Ammunition