Sonja Van den Ende
Sonja van den Ende is an independent journalist and columnist while more often she is seen as a pro-Russian conspiracy theorist. She was recruited to report on Ukraine from March 2022 and has taken part in “press tours” organised by the Russian army in the occupied Ukrainian territories. Before the invasion of Ukraine, Sonja van den Ende was reporting from Syria. She has accused the US and Israel of mass murder in Syria, and has praised Putin for his help in “defending the Syrian people”.
Sonja van den Ende was among the “foreign observers” for the pseudo-referenda for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to Russia.
Missions
Individual Observers at the 2022 pseudo-referendum for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Luhansk to Russia
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I arrived in Russia when a special military operation began and visited the Donbass. And they told me that I was waiting for a criminal prosecution and a trial at home. I may have more than three years in prison waiting for me. [Translated from Russian]
