Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on April 23 confirmed they are detaining a U.S. journalist working with Vice News. The self-declared separatist mayor of Sloviansk told reporters the journalist, Simon Ostrovsky, had been detained for reporting what he said was false information that was "destabilizing for us" but that he was being treated well.
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American journalist Simon Ostrovsky detained for reporting \"false information\", according to the self-declared separatist mayor of Sloviansk.
