The news was tweeted by Director General of NewsMedia group Aram Gabrelyanov.
“Life News journalists have been detained in Kiev by SBU [Ukraine’s intelligence],” he posted. “They’ve been taken away in an unknown direction. They claim they are investigating some subway bomb planting.”
Life News identified the detained as correspondent Elizaveta Khramtsova and photographer Natalia Kalysheva.
Корреспондентов LifeNews уже больше часа держат в главном здании СБУ http://t.co/ecHxTH8D7h http://ift.tt/1yTvNoL
— LIFENEWS (@lifenews_ru) January 30, 2015
The channel says Khramtsova managed to make a phone call to the office, before connection with the filming crew was lost.
The two women were getting into a taxi to go to film an interview, when two other people got into the same vehicle and showed their SBU (Ukrainian Intelligence Agency) IDs.
Khramtsova and Kalysheva were apparently told they were being taken for questioning over a phone call warning of a bomb planted at Leo Tolstoy Square in central Kiev. That’s where the two had been waiting for their taxi.
“They asked us to be witnesses,” Khramtsova said by phone. “We said we did not see anything, but they said we needed to go to the main SBU building to answer a few questions. They promised to show us a video recording with us, which proved we could see something.”
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