Andrei Stenin

Career as a Photographer
Andre Stenin was a Russian photojournalist with Rossiya Segodnya (formerly RIA Novosti), specializing in conflict zone reporting (Egypt, Syria, Ukraine). He was killed under contested circumstances in eastern Ukraine near Lugansk, apparently on August 6, 2014.

Stenin was making reports from Donetsk, Sloviansk and other cities and towns of Ukraine's embattled southeast, with his last photos showing life and death in Sloviansk. Contact with him was lost on August 5, and he was reportedly killed the next day in an attack on a convoy studied here as Rozsypne Road of Death (his sub-section there), on a stretch of road near Snizhne.

There were rumors started by Kiev in mid-August that Stenin had been captured by their military forces, but this appears to have been only to negotiate the release of someone alive.
 * "Mediators [representing] the Ukrainian side contacted our agency and suggested holding talks on swapping him, implying that Stenin is alive," emphasized Dmitry Kiselev, the Director General of Rossiya Segodnya.

""Journalists are the eyes of the citizens and the world." - saying attributed to Stenin.

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