What do you give a journalist friend for his 30th birthday when he’s been imprisoned in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’ for well over two years with his only ‘outside’ contact being a forced ‘interview’ to a Russian propaganda channel? Stanislav Aseyev’s colleagues from the Radio Svoboda Donbas.Realii project have given him their voice and are seeking to have that voice heard in the hope that it can help secure Aseyev’s release.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Halya Coynash: Journalist spends birthday in Donetsk ‘concentration camp’
Journalist Stanislav Aseyev has been held prisoner by Russian-backed forces since June 2017 for his undercover reporting on life inside the Russia-occupied territories of the eastern Donbas.
