Mike Giglio is back where he started. BuzzFeed’s mideast correspondent, who is reporting from embattled cities across eastern Ukraine, is talking to Mashable on May 2 afternoon from his hotel in Donetsk — not in Sloviansk where he intended to be. The Ukrainian military was set to begin an assault on a pro-Russian stronghold in Sloviansk, but panicking militants stationed at a checkpoint outside of town had other plans.
Mashable: BuzzFeed reporter kidnapped in Ukraine says he ‘was pretty freaked out’
BuzzFeed's mideast correspondent Mike Giglio was briefly detained by pro-Russian militants on May 2.
