The Washington Post, which has been owned by American oligarch Jeff Bezos since 2013, has shuttered its Kyiv bureau amid the harshest winter since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, multiple staffers reported Feb.

The Washington Post's Ukraine correspondent has announced that she was laid off by the billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper "in the middle of a war zone."

Washington Post began laying off many of its employees from February 4 onwards

The Post spoke to four Kenyans who fought in Ukraine and relatives of nine other recruits, as a secret pipeline funnels young Africans to Russia’s military.

Outrage erupted Wednesday after The Washington Post announced it would lay off more than 300 people from its newsroom — including a reporter in the middle of a warzone in Ukraine. The reporter received the news under harsh conditions while covering the war in Ukraine.