DPR war reporter held in Ilovaisk - militia
DONETSK. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) claim that Ukrainian troops have captured the DPR Defense Ministry's political correspondent and French national Yury Yurchenko in the city of Ilovaisk.
"Today Ukrainian forces captured a war correspondent from the DPR Defense Ministry's political department in the city of Ilovaisk," sources in the ministry told Interfax.
The DPR administration would not say how or why Yurchenko was arrested.
At the same time, the ministry expressed its "deep concern over the future fate of Yurchenko, since the Ukrainian troops around Ilovaisk were formed out of far-right ideologist volunteers and mercenaries."
Ukrainian officials were not immediately available to confirm this report.