Elena Kostyuchenko

Elena Kostyuchenko is an exiled journalist and writer. Following the outbreak of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Kostyuchenko was forced to leave a reporting assignment in Mariupol, where she was told Chechenites were given an assassination order against her. In October 2022, she reported being poisoned after falling ill on a train in Berlin, Germany. She believes Russian authorities were responsible and pursued the case with the Berlin prosecutor’s office. While the prosecutor’s office originally dropped the case in May 2023, they reopened it in July.