Viktoria Roshchyna is a contributor to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. She specializes in reporting on crime, human rights, and the judiciary.
Russian military patrols prowl the streets, Russian channels fill the airwaves, and the occupying forces take a cut of the fishermen’s catch. Phone service is dead, and protests have been quashed. This is life in Berdyansk, an Azov Sea port city seized by Russian forces days after the invasion.