10.08 Rossiya Segodnya Starts Campaign to Support Photographer Stenin Missing in Ukraine

MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) – The International Information News Agency Rossiya Segodnya starts a campaign #freeAndrew to support its photographer Andrei Stenin, who went missing in the combat zone in Ukraine’s east, where government troops are conducting a special operation against independence supporters.

In Moscow, near RIA Novosti information agency headquarters next to metro station Park Kultury, as well as in Pushkin Square, the photos taken by Stenin will be distributed, with a call to support demands for his release in social networks. The campaign will begin at noon on Sunday local time (08:00 GMT). Volunteers are expected to hand out 5,000 photos.

In addition, at 5:00 p.m. local time (13:00 GMT) a set of photographs taken by Stenin in southeastern Ukraine will be put on display near RIA Novosti headquarters. A video address made by Andrei’s colleagues asking to free the photographer will be also uploaded on YouTube.