However, Herashchenko said he has no information on Stenin’s whereabouts.
Contact with Rossiya Segodnya photo journalist Andrei Stenin who had been working in Lugansk, Donetsk, Slavyansk and other eastern Ukrainian cities since May 13 was lost on August 5.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a case on the kidnapping of Stenin in southeastern Ukraine, official spokesman Vladimir Markin announced Tuesday.