The long-time editor-in-chief of the Reni Herald dies

The editor of the Reniiskyi Visnyk newspaper from Reni, Odesa region, Petro Hadzhi-Ivan, died after a long illness.

This was reported by the Makhala newspaper.

Petro Hadzhi-Ivan had been heading the publication since 2004 and was one of the co-owners of the private enterprise Media Reni. He was born in Moldova. He has been writing notes for the newspaper since school, and always knew he would be a journalist. And so it happened. He received his journalism education in Lviv. He worked for various publications and was his own correspondent for central publications.

He also collaborated with Intent, helping to distribute our free newspaper.

Roman Krakalia , an Odesa journalist, writer, and public figure, also died the day before .

Earlier, Valeriy Tishchenko, the first head of the Criminalistics Department in the history of the Odesa National University "Odesa Law Academy", died on January 25.

The head of the Kiliya district court in Odesa region died suddenly on January 24, around 5 am in the Kiliya multidisciplinary hospital. The 45-year-old judge sought help at the medical institution with complaints of feeling unwell, after which he lost consciousness. Despite the help provided, doctors were unable to save his life. Mykola Balan has been working in the Kiliya court since 2008. In 2015, he became the head of the institution, which he managed for five years. After that, Oleksandr Maslenikov was elected as the head of the court, but in 2023 Mykola Balan was re-elected again.

Bohdan Chufus, actor, singer, member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, announcer of Odesa TV, People's Artist of Ukraine, died on January 2, 2026.

In December, Valeriy Syrov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and an honorary citizen of Bilyayivka, Odesa Oblast, died at the age of 76.

Кирило Бойко