EASTERN UKRAINE - Shakhtarsk - Independence Supporters Defend Town - JOURNALIST MISSING

Галерея Обороны TRANSLATE - Gallery of Defense Обороняющие Шахтерск ополченцы на отдыхе Translate - Defending Shahtersk militia on holiday Быт мирных жителей в осажденном Шахтерске Translate - Gen. civilians in the besieged Shahtarsk Town of Shaktarsk in independence supporter held EASTERN UKRAINE (Not far off site of MH17 downing) SOURCE - TWITTER - DEFENCE GALLERY - HERE. ................................................................................................ OTHER - SOURCES [Source - here] UKRAINE GOVT SHELLING AFTERMATH SHAHTARSK 10 Lenina St SOURCE - Save at least one life today  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0seypr0Omc

CURRENT NEWS

Rossiya Segodnya photographer Andrei Stenin OSCE Checking Info About Russian Journalist Missing in Ukraine MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti) – The office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media is checking reports that Rossiya Segodnya photographer Andrei Stenin went missing in Ukraine earlier this week, a source in the organization told RIA Novosti Friday. “The office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media is checking the information about the disappearance of Andrei Stenin,” the source said. Earlier in the day, an informed source said that Stenin is currently being held by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in southern Ukraine. The SBU claimed it did not detain the Rossiya Segodnya photographer. Stenin went missing on August 5 while covering the events in Donetsk, Slaviansk and other eastern Ukrainian cities. According to sources at the headquarters of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, the Russian journalist could have gone to the city of Shakhtarsk with the militia’s press corps. The Russian Embassy to Ukraine is looking into the circumstances of the incident. Stenin’s abduction is not the first incident of mass media workers coming into harm’s way in Ukraine. Back in June, a cameraman for Russia's Channel-1 TV station was fatally wounded in the stomach.  Prior to that, a reporter and a sound engineer from Russia's VGTRK media holding were killed in a mortar attack near Luhansk. SOURCE - RIA NEWS - HERE.

    ITAR-TASS also reports:

“According to unverified information, he [Stenin] was captured by the Ukrainian National Guard forces,” Alexander Shtol, the head of the Rossiya Segodnya agency's photo service, said. “We have not yet managed to get in touch with him personally.”

Shtol earlier said that the journalist could have gone to the town of Shakhtersk with the militia fighting against pro-Kiev troops.

[SOURCE - ITAR-TASS - HERE]

As far as I can see on news Google newsfeed, there's no update on the missing journalist. 

However, a human rights representative is calling for the Ukrainian government to explain reasons for the journalist's detention (if he is held by the government), and asking that the government ensure the journalist is promptly released or, should they have sufficient grounds to charge him, that he be charged and brought before the courts,  so he may be released pending trial. [Source - RIA NEWS - here.]

*OSCE is:  Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Crisis management and human rights type of org.

MISSING JOURNALIST  - ANDREI STENIN FOLLOW @ TWITTER  #FREEANDREW