Did not leave the steppe Donetsk

In Donetsk, the correspondents of the Rain television channel Sergey Yerzhenkov and Vasily Polonsky ceased to be in touch. This was reported on the channel website.

Before the disappearance, Polonsky told the editorial office that the crew was detained by employees of the Ministry of State Security of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. On the hotline of the MGB, the television channel was informed that on Friday the department did not make arrests. Alena Alekseeva, assistant to the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, also stated that she did not know about the detention of journalists.

Former Secretary of the DPR Security Council Alexander Khodakovsky, who was interviewed the day before, suggested that Yerzhenkova and Polonsky "was detained for a preventive conversation, because the spokeswoman Zakharchenko exceeded her powers and gave accreditation to reporters" rain "without the knowledge of Zakharchenko himself."

Later, adviser Zakharchenko, writer Zakhar Prilepin told Ekhu Moscow that the detained journalists would soon be released. "Information is one: everything will be fine. There are no special problems. Now they’ll figure it out, and tomorrow morning everything will be fine. They will simply release it in the morning or after half an hour. They will simply release it and pre -vidos,” Prilepin said. “I called, they told me that everything is fine, everything is fine.”

The film crew "rain" received accreditation to work in Donetsk both from the Ukrainian authorities and the Ministry of Information of the DPR. On Thursday, journalists crossed the border of the DPR from the territory of Ukraine. On the territory of the self -proclaimed republic, they planned to shoot a series of plots.

The Ministry of State Security of the DPR has repeatedly expelled Russian journalists from the controlled territory. In March, the Glavred of the Pskov province of Denis Kamalyagin, who was in Donetsk on a business trip, was sent outside the “republic”.

Kamalyagin arrived in the Donbass on March 10, and at 6 am the 13th in the hostel, where he stopped, the MGB militants appeared. They detained the journalist, seized the information from him and won data from them. After that, Kamalyagin was sent from the occupied territory, saying that he did not have a certain “civil accreditation”, without which journalists allegedly do not have the right to work in the DPR.

On June 16 last year , the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Pavel Kanygin was expelled from the DPR. The incident occurred the next day after the reporting of an anti -war rally in Donetsk . The DPR militants captured a journalist in the center of this city on suspicion of working for "one of the Ukrainian publications." When detained, Kanygin was damaged by the eye. The basis for suspicion, the militants called the Ukrainian journalist by Kanygin the business card by the name of Matsuga. "It is difficult to come up with a more absurd accusation for journalists who wear dozens of business cards in their pocket," the Novaya Gazeta noted.

In addition, Kanygina forced to take a test for the content of drugs in the blood and this test allegedly gave a positive result.