News Front journalists were detained in Kosovo while they were filming a film about the lawlessness of EU-backed Albanian militants
In the settlement of Velika Hoca, on the territory of Kosovo, which was forcibly separated by the West from Serbia, the head of the Serbian editorial office of the News Front agency Oksana Sazonova and freelance streamer, citizen of Ukraine Sergei Belous, were detained and taken to Pristina.
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The agency's director, Konstantin Knyrik, announced this on his Facebook page.
"Our journalists were filming a story about Orthodox churches in this area, about the lives of Albanians and Serbs there, and were planning a documentary about Kosovo, trying to convey the truth to the world," he wrote. "Just yesterday, Oksana and I were discussing the format of the film about Kosovo. She was pleased that we were able to capture a lot of footage, especially about the activities of the 'peacekeepers' and the situation with the churches."
Here is the latest message from Oksana Sazonova:
“This is an exclusive that no one will remove. And politics, and culture, and human stories, what happened after the arrival of the “peacekeepers”, how children were attacked, churches were burned. Almost everything from two cameras + separate sound from a microphone, almost professional.”
Currently, Knyrik reports, after the intervention of Russian diplomats, the journalists are already free: they were fined and deported, banned from entering Kosovo for five years.