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Ukrainian servicemen have released Rossiya television station reporter Yevgeny Reshetnev and his TV crew, who were detained outside Kharkiv, the Rossiya 24 TV channel has reported.

Reshetnev and his TV crew were detained near the town of Izium in the Kharkiv region.

In response to the incident, the Russian Embassy in Kyiv asked the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to clarify the reasons behind the Russian journalists’ detention.