Olena Vasilivna Kot (born March 13, 1981, in Donetsk) was a Ukrainian Journalist who worked at Ukraina 24.

Career

She began her career in the

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in 2003. From 2003 to 2004 she worked as a local journalist on Donbas TV Channel and would become a

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for Novini and Sport Za Tizhdenv. In 2006, she moved to

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where she currently remains, she also hosted the news program Sobytiya. Olena owned two

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named "Bonya" and "Clyde." In 2020, these two dogs attacked two women in the village "Kryukovshchina" in the residential complex "European City." This incident resulted in her

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, and later she was fined and had her

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confiscated.

References

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