--- description: (KIEV, Ukraine) — Authorities in Ukraine say the body of a kidnapped journalist who played an active role in protests that led to President Viktor... title: Nationalist-Linked Ukraine Reporter Found Murdered image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Nationalist-Linked Ukraine Reporter Found Murdered by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2014 11:36 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2014 11:36 AM CUT (KIEV, Ukraine) — Authorities in Ukraine say the body of a kidnapped journalist who played an active role in protests that led to President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster in February has been found in a forest some 150 kilometers (60 miles) outside the capital, Kiev. Cherkassk province prosecutors said Sunday that Vasily Sergiyenko was abducted in his home city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi on Friday evening and later murdered. The nationalist Svoboda party, of which Sergiyenko was a member, said the reporter was found with stab wounds and signs of beatings to his head and knees. Svoboda said the killing bears the hallmarks of a politically motivated hit. The party, whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok is running in the May 25 presidential election, said Sergiyenko and other Svoboda representatives had received threats over the past week. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/50915/nationalist-linked-ukraine-reporter-found-murdered/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/50915/nationalist-linked-ukraine-reporter-found-murdered/"},"headline":"Nationalist-Linked Ukraine Reporter Found Murdered","datePublished":"2014-04-06T11:36:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:09:25.855Z","description":"(KIEV, Ukraine) — Authorities in Ukraine say the body of a kidnapped journalist who played an active role in protests that led to President Viktor...","url":"https://time.com/50915/nationalist-linked-ukraine-reporter-found-murdered/","keywords":["Ukraine"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/50915/nationalist-linked-ukraine-reporter-found-murdered/","name":"Nationalist-Linked Ukraine Reporter Found Murdered"}}]}] ```