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Masha Froliak

investigative journalist
freelance

Masha Froliak is a journalist who has covered the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. She spent months reporting in the field in Ukraine together with her colleague Yousur Al-Hlou for the New York Times. Their reporting has launched several critical investigations into likely war crimes of the Russian soldiers committed in Ukraine. In these investigations they combined traditional reporting with open-source methods, like forensic analysis of large troves of digital data. They identified the Russian military unit behind the killing of dozens of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. In a separate investigation they exclusively obtained thousands of intercepted calls of Russian soldiers to their families in Russia. After months of analysis and verification they revealed to the public the Russian army in disarray in the words of the perpetrators themselves. These investigations were recognized with the 2023 Pulitzer award for International reporting, 2024 George Polk Award and 2024 Dupont award.

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