Simon Ostrovsky is back in eastern Ukraine.
Missing militia men cause chaos. Watch our latest Russian Roulette dispatch.
A group of international military observers who were detained last week by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have been released today, officials said.
In this dispatch, Simon Ostrovsky tells the story of his abduction in eastern Ukraine, his days in captivity, and why he thinks he was targeted by “mayor” Ponomarev.
Just an hour before he was kidnapped by pro-Russia forces, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky interviewed two Russian Cossacks in Kramatorsk. One of the men showed Simon his Russian passport, which was the first confirmation VICE News has seen of Russians working with the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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As tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists detained three Ukrainian State Security Service agents in Horlivka this weekend, while a masked pro-Russia militia seized a television station in Donetsk.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill into the Russian legislature Monday that seeks to create a special gambling zone in Crimea.