Foreign Minister of Britain is studying the circumstances of the loss Ukraine Phillips
UK foreign Ministry is studying the circumstances of the loss in Ukraine, a British citizen, a journalist of RT Graham Phillips and is ready to provide consular assistance.
first of Authorized Ukrainian militia said that stringer RT Phillips in the night of 23 July went with colleagues in the airport of Donetsk, where there was shooting. Together with one of them, he decided to come closer to the positions of the security forces. After some time with phone Phillips his colleague phoned remaining in the car reporters and said that " Phillips was taken. As have informed news Agency Anna-news, the Agency statement also worked Together with Phillips in a district of the Donetsk airport and ceased contact with colleagues at approximately the same time that stringer Russia Today.
" We saw the message about the fact that a British citizen missing in Ukraine region of Donetsk. We study the data. We are ready to provide the necessary consular assistance, " said Commissioner of the British Ministry of foreign Affairs.
Detention of employees of RT and Anna-news was not the first incident with employees of the mass media in the Russian media covering the events in Ukraine. So, Graham Phillips had been already detained by Ukrainian law-enforcers at the end of may in Mariupol. Correspondent of the First channel, LifeNews, RT, VGTRK and other Russian media many times had been attacked and detained by the Ukrainian authorities. In June by shelling took the life of the journalist of " Vesti " Igor Korneluk, video engineer Anton Voloshin and the operator of the Russian First channel Anatoly Clan.