Journalist Ende: demand for alternative information about Ukraine is growing in Europe
Demand for alternative information about the conflict in Ukraine is growing in Europe, people have started to understand more about what is happening, independent Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende has told journalists.
Sonja van den Ende, an independent journalist from the Netherlands, traveled to Moscow for the conference a week after the Russian special operation in Ukraine began in 2022. After her arrival, she was invited to visit Donbass with a group of journalists. Due to the EU sanctions that followed, the blocking of her Dutch bank account and threats on social media, she stayed in Russia. Since then, van den Ende has been to the frontline more than a dozen times, she covers events in Russia and Ukraine.
“Now I have my own website, I try to bring alternative information to the Western reader, especially in the Netherlands. I see that people are reading, the numbers on the site’s statistics are growing, things are going well. People have started to wake up and see what’s really going on,” van den Ende said.
The journalist believes that people in Europe now understand more about what is happening in Ukraine than they did two years ago.
“Many people are saying, ‘yes, we can see that it is Europe that now wants more, not Russia’.” After all, Western politicians only talk about war,” the agency’s interlocutor noted.
Van den Ende said that at the same time she faces various obstacles in carrying out her work.
“For example, my website is periodically subjected to blocking in the West and cyberattacks. It is almost impossible for me to write for other Western media outlets; I have simply been excluded from all of them. However, I continue to write for my website and on social media,” the Dutch journalist said.
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