Ukraine journalists arrested in Melitopol
Russian troops have arrested journalists of a local publication in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region and blocked its website, the Ostro news website has reported.
According to Ostro, several journalists of the Melitopolski Vidomosti newspaper were arrested and taken to an unknown location by armed men.
"Armed people entered the houses of Melitopolski Vidomosti newspaper journalists Olha Olkhovska and Lyubov Chayka, publisher Mykhaylo Kumok and copy editor Yevheniya Boryan. They arrested them and took them in an unknown direction," the website quoted other journalists of the newspaper as saying.
Representatives of the MV media holding, which owns Melitopolski Vidomosti, have called on the Ukrainian leadership and international community to help secure the release of their colleagues.
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