Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Marta Dyczok: Masked men vs. journalists in Ukraine
'I'm being arrested," he said. Moments later the phone went dead.
Ukrainian journalist Yury Lelyavsky was calling for help. A stringer for ZIK Media, he was in Slovyansk, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk region occupied by pro-Russian militias. A colleague in Kiev, Andriy Kulykov, had advised him, "Don't speak Ukrainian." But it was too late. Yury disappeared around 8 p.m. on Friday, April 25.