Report: Vice Journalist Captured in Eastern Ukraine
 

Report: Vice Journalist Captured in Eastern Ukraine
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Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky has been taken by militia in Eastern Ukraine, a Russian news outlet reports.

The reporter for Vice News, who has been filing a ****** of compelling video dis*****es from Ukraine since early March, was "taken" in Sloviansk, the Russian media outlet gazeta.ru reports.

The "People's mayor" of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Po**marev, said that the militia has taken the American journalist, Simon Ostrovsky, hostage, reports a correspondent for Gazeta.ru, Po**marev an**unced this during a press conference at the House of Culture in Slavyansk.

Sloviansk's self-appointed mayor, Vachislav Po**maryov, reportedly held a press conference where he called Ostrovsky's parents to assure them that their son was okay, the outlet reports. "**body abducted him, **body is holding him hostage, he's with us **w in at the SBU, preparing material and working," Po**maryov reportedly said, raising the possibility that Ostrovsky is merely embedded with the militia. Read more...

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