A Russian journalist for investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been kidnapped in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, news reports said.
Correspondent Pavel Kanygin was presumably captured overnight in the eastern city of Artemivsk by unknown assailants and taken to Slovyansk, Ekho Moskvy reported Monday.
Correspondent for Ekho Moskvy, Ilya Azar, said Monday on his Twitter account he had received a text message from Kanygin saying: “I have been kidnapped, call Moscow.”
A $1000 has reportedly been paid to facilitate Kanygin’s release, but the journalist remains out of contact, Azar said.
Novaya Gazeta has declined to comment on the kidnapping, Ekho Moskvy said.
