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CNN —Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who went missing in an occupied part of her country, died in Russian detention last month, Ukrainian authorities said earlier this week. “I have official documentation from the Russian side confirming the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who was illegally deprived of her liberty by Russia,” Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, said in a statement. Journalist Evgeniya Motorevskaya, who worked with Roshchyna as the former editor of Hromadske, a Ukrainian media outlet, said the young reporter was determined to do her job as best as she could. The Ukrainian government says thousands of Ukrainians have been held in arbitrary detention in Russia. Yatsenko said that according to Russian authorities, Roshchyna died while being transferred from a detention facility in the southern Russian city of Taganrog to Moscow.

Persons: Victoria Roshchyna, Roshchyna, Roshchyna’s, “, ”, Dmytro Lubinets, Roshchyna's, Anatolii Stepanov, General, Evgeniya Motorevskaya, Hromadske, Vika, Petro Yatsenko, Yatsenko, Tetyana Katrychenko, ” Katrychenko Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Getty, Center, Media Initiative, Human Rights, Russian Federation, International Women’s Media Foundation, Ukrayinska Pravda, Hromadske, Radio Free Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Kyiv, AFP, Crimea, Taganrog, Radio Free Europe

☆ Revolut moves global HQ to heart of London's financial district as it awaits UK bank license
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A mockup of what Revolut's new global HQ in Canary Wharf will look like. RevolutBritish financial technology firm Revolut announced Thursday that it's planning to move its official headquarters in London to Canary Wharf, the city's major financial district. Revolut will relocate its global headquarters to the YY London building in the center of Canary Wharf. Canary Wharf is London's main financial district, home to many of the world's largest banks, insurers, and other financial institutions. Revolut said that its decision to open a new global headquarters at the heart of the city demonstrates that the firm remains committed to the U.K. market.

Persons: Revolut, Francesca Carlesi, Revolut's, Nikolay Storonsky, Vlad Yatsenko —, — Organizations: Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, Bank of England, Financial, Authority, Revolut's Locations: Canary, London, Revolut, Canary Wharf, U.K

☆ Ukrainian POWs are being bought and sold on a Russian black market, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russian fighters are operating a black market for Ukrainian prisoners of war, The Times of London reported. AdvertisementA black market in Ukrainian prisoners of war is being operated by Russian fighters, according to The Times of London. The Chechens were buying the POWs from other Russian forces in order to use them in prisoner exchanges for their own troops, he said. Soon, Levytskiy was taken to Grozny, where he recuperated and, in June 2023, was part of a group exchange of Ukrainian prisoners for Chechen ones, the paper reported. An estimated 4,000 Ukrainian combatants have been taken prisoner by Russian forces, The Guardian reported.

Persons: —, Petro Yatsenko, Ramzan Kadyrov, Vyacheslav Levytskiy, Levytskiy Organizations: Service, Russian, The Times, Donetsk People's, Guardian Locations: London, Russia, Grozny, Chechen, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Avdiivka, Donetsk People's Republic, Geneva, Russian

CNN —Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war, in the first such swap since the deadly crash of a Russian military plane that Moscow claimed was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers. Wednesday’s exchange was the first since the mysterious crash of a Russian IL-76 plane on January 24 in Russia’s Belgorod region, which neighbors eastern Ukraine. But Ukraine’s intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said there was still no reliable information as to who might have been on board the downed Russian plane. Speaking after Wednesday’s prisoner exchange, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the IL-76 plane had been downed by a US Patriot missile system. Putin stressed that Russia would not halt prisoner exchanges despite the plane crash.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Zelensky, ”, Andriy Yusov, Yusov, Petro Yatsenko, Kyrylo Budanov, Vladimir Putin, ” Putin, Putin, “, Andriy Yermak Organizations: CNN, Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, Social Media, Ukraine’s, US Patriot, American Patriot, Patriot, Russia’s Defense Ministry Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Moscow, Mariupol, Ukrainian, Russia’s Belgorod, Kyiv, Belgorod, Yablonovo, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Kherson, Sumy

☆ Russia has stopped exchanging POWs because it wants Ukrainian families to think their country is abandoning their loved ones, official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has stopped prisoner of war swaps since August, a Ukrainian official said. It wants Ukrainian families to think their country has left loved ones behind, Dmytro Lubinets said. AdvertisementRussia has stopped exchanging prisoners of war with Ukraine because it wants Ukrainian families to think their country is not doing anything to bring their loved ones back home, an official said. The last swap was held on August 7, when 22 Ukrainian POWs were released, Yatsenko said. AdvertisementA dozen former Ukrainian POWs told the BBC in August that they were beaten, given electric shocks, and not given enough food while held in Russian captivity.

Persons: Dmytro Lubinets, —, Petro Yatsenko, Yatsenko, Lubinets Organizations: Service, Human Rights, Ukraine's, BBC, UN's, Human, Geneva Convention, Institute for Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Geneva

☆ Russia hasn't done a single prisoner-of-war exchange in months: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia hasn't done a single prisoner-of-war exchange with Ukraine in months, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said. AdvertisementRussia has not done a single prisoner-of-war exchange with Ukraine since early August, Petro Yatsenko, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said. Yatsenko said in the November 17 interview that Ukrainian prisoners held captive by Russia are facing "significantly worse" conditions under detention than Russian prisoners face in Ukrainian captivity. AdvertisementHe also suggested that Russia's treatment of captured Ukrainian soldiers falls short of the conditions outlined in the Geneva Conventions. Yatsenko went on to say that Russia is "not interested in the fate of their own prisoners of war.

Persons: Russia hasn't, Yatsenko, —, Petro Yatsenko Organizations: Ukraine's, Service, Times, Institute for Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Geneva

☆ A psychologist says she broke down in tears when she learned the horrors that 2 castrated Ukrainian soldiers endured, says report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian psychologist described the horrors two soldiers went through in a new report by The Times. Anzhelika Yatsenko cried when she learned the young men were castrated while prisoners of Russia. It was "the first time I behaved not like a professional psychologist," she told The Times. The soldiers struggled to tell their psychologist, who specializes in troubled young men, what happened to them. While sexual violence against women and girls is widely covered in the context of war, sexual violence against men is less well-documented.

Persons: Anzhelika Yatsenko, —, Christina Lamb, Yatsenko, I'd Organizations: The Times, Times, Service, Sunday Times, UN Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Poltava, Russian

Zelenskyy has called the Russian attacks on infrastructure “energy terrorism” and vowed the assault won’t change the course of the war. People sit in a dark cafe during a blackout after Russian strikes Dec. 29 in Lviv, Ukraine. Company officials believe Russian engineers who know the vulnerable points in Ukraine’s electricity system most likely advised the Russian military on its targeting. Water and cellphonesThe attack on the country’s electricity grid has had a knock-on effect for other infrastructure, including water supplies and mobile phone service. Although the assault on Ukraine’s infrastructure hasn’t damaged Ukraine’s position on the battlefield or broken the country’s will to fight, it has inflicted “huge damage” on the economy, he said.

☆ Revolut close to finalising 2021 accounts as fintech seeks U.K. licence - sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Stefania Spezzati | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Fintech firm Revolut Ltd. is close to finalising its long-overdue 2021 financial accounts, a move that could pave the way for the start-up to obtain a UK banking licence, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Revolut is set to publish financial accounts for the year ended December 2021 - which were due last summer - at the end of January after auditing firm BDO LLP’s final sign-off, the people said. The Revolut filing will likely show a rise in 2021 revenue from clients’ subscriptions and exchange rate fees, the person said. The accounts may help the entrepreneur to convince UK regulators that Revolut is ready for a banking licence after a two-year wait. Britain is a key market for Revolut, which aims to become a global financial firm.

☆ Revolut pays some senior talent up to $300,000 in base salary and is still hiring. Here are 3 valuable traits in applicants, according to its global head of HR.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Banking unicorn Revolut is hiring for over 200 positions, as mass layoffs hit the tech industry. Getting a job at Revolut is a highly competitive process, its global head of HR said. Revolut is growing and "expanding in many countries," global head of HR Alexandra Loi said in an interview. The company is being "cautious" in the downturn about hiring the right people for the right roles, but it is still "fully going on with recruitment." Loi said that the company is still hiring for over 200 roles, primarily in engineering, sales, and other corporate functions.

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