One of the eight European observers being detained by pro-Russian
separatists in the eastern Ukraine city of Slovyansk on Sunday was
escorted to an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) vehicle and driven away.
A Reuters reporter outside the city administration building in Slaviansk said the man came out, escorted by three unarmed men, got into a white OSCE jeep and drove off. The group declined to answer reporters' questions.
Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists seized control of the offices of regional state television in Donetsk and said they would take it off air and broadcast a Kremlin-backed Russian channel instead.
Four separatists in masks, with truncheons and shields, stood at the entrance to the building controlling access, while more separatists in camouflage fatigues went inside.
More than a dozen police officers were standing a short distance away but were not trying to resist the separatists. One police lieutenant, who was sitting in a police vehicle nearby, said it would have been pointless to intervene.
Other media reports said the separatists are demanding that Russian state channels be put back on the air. The Kyiv government last month blocked the broadcasts of the Russian channels, labelling them as propaganda tools
for the Kremlin.
Read more: Ukraine crisis: pro-Russian separatists free 1 observer - World - CBC News
A Reuters reporter outside the city administration building in Slaviansk said the man came out, escorted by three unarmed men, got into a white OSCE jeep and drove off. The group declined to answer reporters' questions.
Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists seized control of the offices of regional state television in Donetsk and said they would take it off air and broadcast a Kremlin-backed Russian channel instead.
Four separatists in masks, with truncheons and shields, stood at the entrance to the building controlling access, while more separatists in camouflage fatigues went inside.
More than a dozen police officers were standing a short distance away but were not trying to resist the separatists. One police lieutenant, who was sitting in a police vehicle nearby, said it would have been pointless to intervene.
Other media reports said the separatists are demanding that Russian state channels be put back on the air. The Kyiv government last month blocked the broadcasts of the Russian channels, labelling them as propaganda tools
for the Kremlin.
Read more: Ukraine crisis: pro-Russian separatists free 1 observer - World - CBC News
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