Kyiv names street after journalist who reported truth about Holodomor

The Kyiv City Council has named a small street in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district after Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He was one of the first foreign correspondents to write about the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of people in 1932–1933.

The initiative to rename the street came from the creative team behind the recent film “Mr. Jones,” which tells the story of the journalist’s reporting from Ukraine during the famine, and the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University.