SIMFEROPOL. Sept 1 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Security Service has held Anna Mokhova, a resident of Crimea and a freelance journalist with Crimea's First Crimean television, who was detained near Donetsk on August 23, the channel's editor-in-chief Yekaterina Kozyr told Interfax on Monday.
"We were told that she was seized somewhere between Donetsk and Makeyevka, and then there was an official statement by the Ukrainian Security Service saying that she had been detained on suspicion of working with 'terrorists,'" Kozyr said.
Kozyr said the staff of the television channel demand the journalist's release.
"Anna didn't have an editorial assignment when she went to Donetsk, but she had one goal: to see everything that is happening there with her own eyes and send us videos," Kozyr said.
By the moment of her detention, Mokhova had been in Donetsk for about a month and regularly provided the channel with video materials from the military action zone and comments by representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, she said.
"We hired her as a freelance journalist and we paid her wages. We didn't take her on our permanent staff because we realized that our cooperation would last a couple of months, until Anna's return to Crimea," Kozyr said.