Simon Ostrovsky Describes His Kidnapping: Russian Roulette In Ukraine (Dispatch 31)
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VICE News reporter Simon Ostrovsky tells the full story of his abduction and captivity in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russia forces.
On Monday April 21st, VICE News reporters Simon Ostrovsky and Freddie Paxton were stopped at a checkpoint by armed pro-Russia forces loyal to the self-proclaimed mayor of Sloviansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev. They were pulled from their car, along with three other journalists they were traveling with. After a thorough search and questioning, Paxton and the three other journalists were released. Ostrovsky was held in a basement cell where he was blindfolded, beaten, and accused of being a spy. For days, his whereabouts were unknown, which sparked a furor among journalists in the region and people from around the world who have been following his work. On Thursday, April 24 Simon was suddenly released onto the streets of Sloviansk with little explanation.
In this dispatch, Simon tells the story of his abduction, his days in captivity, and why he thinks he was targeted by "mayor" Ponomarev.
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VICE News she’s hot.
Terrible censorship
@@Martoto94 She is pretty which opens doors for her on her assignments. She's a great journalist too.
The hell happened here.
Stay in Israel and don’t go around my friend u r very arrogant person and many people don’t like you sarcastic comments and lies
If he would have brought The Fish none of this would have happened
LMFAO
What is that your on and off switch
😂😂😂
Is that your off switch? Imagine the fish follow the trip and say that to the kidnappers... LMAO
ikr. they should make a documentary about The Fish.
I'm not threatening you, but if you do what i don't like, I'll throw you out of the city.
Sounds legit.
LOL THE MAYOR WHO BASICALY SAID IT LIKE THAT LOOKS MORE LIKE SOMEONE WHO JUST ESCAPED OR WAS RELEASED FROM THE NEW DODGEY ASS GOVERNMENT FROM PRISON AFTER DOING 25 YEARS FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS HAHA
chuckb "VE ASK DE QUESTIONS" lmao
chuckb
No, ve are not threatening you.....
Ve are varning you.!!!
Ahhhh hahahahhahahahaha
They called it a "warning" but I feel like warn and threat have too similar definitions to make the distinction.
And? that's same thing as everyone do with immigrants, and is that threatening too?
Same guy that went to the north korean labour camps in Siberia with Shane Smith, legend!
North Korea has camps in Siberia, that's what he means
Do not ever forget about "The Fish"
The fish 💀
@@greeny6184 I'm in love with that guy
omg yes, here from that, fav series ever and I've seen peaky blinders
Rumour has it that Simon wasn't released at all. But that he in fact escaped by smashing his way trough multiple concrete walls and steel doors using his massive titanium testicles.
Ahem.. Okay.? lmao
Yep, massive titanium testicles that are filled with bullshit to the brim
I wouldn't even be surprised if it was the case.
Sounds about right.
Hey U guys let Simon fill us in with his version of the story its called Propaganda not Bullshit.
nice to see that the mayor showed up in his finest addidas running wear. that guy is all class
Russian Mafia garb.
Pure Serb lol
Drip don’t come easy
Russian formal attire
What a "mayor" .... maybe 30 working brain cells.??
"We're not holding her, she's out invited guest" Lol.
"Do put that blindfold back on her though..... We blindfold all our guests"
I mean, she obviously approached them first, as ironic as you attempt to make it out to be.
@@wearytrader535 I doubt she was fully aware of the consequences in doing so ......
They know their own bullshit sounds pathetic but it's not like they're going to admit to anything.
"Oi. I'm going to leave then."
"No, we aren't finished inviting you yet."
He called in a favor from ‘The Fish’
North African labor camps episode!!!!
@@tejasbstechgeek ...African?
North Korea's labour camps*
The final boss of Russia
Simon didn't choose the journalist life. The journalist life chose him.
😂😂😂😂
The peaceful pro-russians express their love for each other with gentle beatings and threats of machete-induced violence. These journalists just misunderstood their friendly gestures, thats all.
That's what I keep telling everyone.
Mauricio Beniquez
I agree its just a culture thing. A gentle beating then some vodka and best friends forever...
I loled. haha
They started this. If these "Pro-Russians" loves Russian so much why wouldn't they just go to Russia?
Ignacio Muñoz Diaz so why ain’t they speaking Yiddish
Stop lying you guys! We're serious! We're not holding her detained, she's only in our custody and we're not allowing her to leave. Also she has a bag over her head. She's not being detained you guys, stop twisting the truth!
It is not that we want her dead, we just don't want her alive...
You guys better be telling the truth otherwise you'll be forced to leave the city. And by truth we mean whatever we tell you, you're not allowed to talk to anyone that doesn't have the same opinion as us... that will be considered lying, because noone has a different opinion.
Simon doesn't have balls of steel, this guy has balls of adamantium
unobtanium
Celery
5 minutes out 'Maybe I'll come back and work here later now that they FUCKING KIDNAPPED ME'
Tungsten
Vibranium
One of the best journalist on Vice News, great brave man.
ArturasDzeikas one of the best actor on Vice News
AlexProo1000 Either say something remotely intelligent or shut the fuck up.
Connor Reeves well i said something remotely intelligent
ArturasDzeikas VICE is CNN for hipsters!
+ArturasDzeikas agree
the hardest thing to believe is that Simon just turned 33 when he looks like he's going on 50...
wow, he is 33?
JjM91084 Damn he's one year older than I am?! Man I thought he was in his mid-forties lol, what kind of life has this man been leading..
manrightchea stressful
Arvind Talukdar manrightchea I'm already greying at 24.. Maybe not as bad but I can see myself close in 9 years. Stress, could be genetics too. My mom started greying early as well.
Getting tortured and chased by extremists will do that.
"provocative question" What a broken fucking society.
He doesn't know how to handle a press conference dude. He is not a politician, just a local drunk maybe.
MrPainseeker lol "a local drunk"... hilarious!
I DONT THINK that those men are going to allow the town drunk to get up and lead a press conference after the kicked the ladies off the stage. He's almost certainly an intelligence officer, propagandist, or military.. WHY would thousands of well organized men fight, kill and die to 'liberate' a town and then let that town and their image lie in the hands of their town's Otis..
Psychic Driving I mean it is Ukraine so it's well within the realm of possibility. With that being said I agree with you, highly unlikely they'd let that shit fly. He was probably just trying to look as civilian as possible so his potential title and potential country of origin are less likely to be brought up
Wow, kidnapped and beaten for 4 days, and at the end Simon looked so chill. A kid late for soccer practice would look more stressed out than he was. That's a lot of self-composure, I guess.
He knew it wasn't going to be that bad and it wasn't.
It's the Xanex, it's a good anti anxiety drug
He is the man unlike "alpha" nowadays
Iozefina Nagy Because these ppl actually always let their interrogators go. And they actually known to treat them very well, probably because of their Orthodox views
@@enigma1247 His biggest concern would be the low-level IQ gunmen actually carrying through with hacking off his leg or shooting him with the shotgun.
I would say if it wasn't for the leadership when they dragged him in the alley, he'd prob be dead.
"She's our invited guest" - balaclava man.
My dream team.
Shane
Simon
The Korean Translator
The Fish
Retired police officer
14yr old cop
Drunk guy from the train
Cucumber lady
And the *,,Hi American"* lady
I'd love to see them together again someday 🥺
What a perfect dream team 😂😂😂
I need to understand this reference
@@himynamelscolin you need to watch this whole thing then
ua-cam.com/play/PLDbSvEZka6GGOrQuonllt75KmhyfZcRjj.html
まこ Oh boy, I’m bout to dive in. Thanks a lot!
Those pro-Russians seem awful guilty about their behavior. Constantly worried about being filmed and the media "telling lies" while they're holding all these people hostage.
You are one of my favorite journalists. I am glad you are OK and made it out of there. Good luck in the future.
p4ra Only an idiot could not realize what Simon's function is in the great western hegemony which is trying to assert itself in the whole of Ukraine. Its a fault-line Simon! and YOU ARE NO IDIOT, you know that an AWACS in the sky and your 'journalism' have similar functions in the ol' Imperial war machine. I don't pity you, you are a soldier of an empire who was captured by soldiers of another (much smaller) empire.
Redža Levi Only an idiot like you will copy and paste this shitty message
+Redža Levi Go kiss Putin ass and go watch lying RT to brainwash yourself some more!
Journalist: Are you threatening us?
Mayor: No we are just warning you.
Me: *Extreme THONK*
Man this ain't funny people died
@@Tuxo7 who said that this is funny
X *doubt*
Rewatching a lot of his work about Russia/Ukraine almost 10 years later feels kinda surreal.
Great journalist 👍
Simon is badass. Confirmed.
***** Define jew. And please explain how is this paid.
***** got any proof?
***** I didn't find any proof. Maybe you can help me with proper links and then let me decide if it's false or not.
***** Not really. Yeah Russa is the good country doing a Lang grab while the Ukrainian government is at a weak point
***** also not Jewish, You spreading bullshit, he's a soviet born, then became american
When you and Dimitri are out being gopniks, drinking vodka and listening to underground melo-death hard bass, suddenly, you're the new mayor and the press want to talk to you. They ask hard questions when you're hungover so you give them the classic Lada trunk treatment.
"I wasn't hurt badly, I was just beaten a couple of times, which is bearable" - Simon Ostrovsky, the Man, the Legend.
He was immediately willing to go back to Slavyansk if he got press accreditation? Man, that's some serious self-composure, respect.
Simon Ostrovsky is a hero. :)
Ага, "герой", "меча и орала"...:)
Rice Acie
Do I need to? If you have been watching the series and following his abduction then you know he is.
Rice Acie He endangered himself to get truth and to understand what is happening. I don't know if that makes him a hero but it is still honorable imo
Rice Acie
I would but I am affraid you are not intelligent enough to understand the concept of "hero" if you're asking such stupid questions.
Rice Acie
With stupid questions like that, yes.
Simon, good to see you free and safe! Thanks for your service.
I feel like this guy has been through worse situations judging by his reaction
And the Pulitzer goes to... Best journalism I have seen.
Jerad Clark Only an idiot could not realize what Simon's function is in the great western hegemony which is trying to assert itself in the whole of Ukraine. Its a fault-line Simon! and YOU ARE NO IDIOT, you know that an AWACS in the sky and your 'journalism' have similar functions in the ol' Imperial war machine. I don't pity you, you are a soldier of an empire who was captured by soldiers of another (much smaller) empire.
+Redža Levi Copy paste idiot! Kremlin troll!
Ukraine get strong by the day and Russia weaker! Something we see in the past, Ukraine will be like West and east Germany!
+Redža Levi YEH SERBIAN PRESIDENT DIDNT MOBILISED 500 000 MILITARY RESERVES AND ATACKTED THOSE TWO SEPARATIST GROUPS JUST FEW THOSAND MAN CAUSE HE AND MR FRANJO TUDJMAN OPENED A BANK IN MOSKOW WITH 5 BIL YUGOSLAVIAN DOLLARS FROM BANK SO REDZADE GO IN SIRYA AND PROCLAIME INDEPENDENCE NOW A???
Miljan Miljenovic Miljane - ako nisi primetio jer ti je engleski slabiji ovde ko god kaže nešto protiv ovog petokolonaškog nazovi novinara Ostrovskog je PO AUTOMATIZMU neki ljubitelj Putina. Ja nisam, Ruse volim koliko i bilo koji Srbin ali ne volim niti jednu vladu ni upravu samo NAROD i njegovu VOLJU!
E sad ovo za Jugu što si napisao se SLAŽEM. Ali zbog svog engleskog nisi razumeo šta sam napisao - Ukrajina NIKADA NEĆE BITI KAO ZAPADNA NEMAČKA kao što Hr. i Sl. nisu toliko uspešne - njihovi zapadni gospodari nikada nisu ni planirali da one budu nešto naročito industrijalizovane zemlje sa blagostanjem.
Ovaj ukrop mi je sugerisao da če se zapadna i istočna uKR ujediniti kao dve nemačke ali ni to se neće desiti jer su Ukre za Ruse Donbasa ISTO ŠTO I NAMA HRVATI. Dva naroda. Oni zapadnjački psi čuvari, unijati katolici a mi i Rusi pravoslavni vernici, čuvari istočnog hrišćanstva!
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I would absolutely LOVE to see how the pro-Russian Russians who visit these comment sections explain how Russia is still doing the right thing.
I'll explain it to you: what you don't realize is that situation in Ukraine is pretty fcked up. Illegitimate government using all means to suppress those who have other views and don't support them. So many leaders are missing. Ukrainian pocket mass media is owned by oligarchs and spreading absolute nonsense 24/7. It's a war! Now put yourself into these people places.. What happened to Simon is really unfortunate, but not as bad as it could be. Western mass media and governments are sticking their nose into foreign country's business like their own, that's why people on edge and so nervous about anything that could sabotage their cause.
overbe what I was trying to say is much more simpler than that. I'll admit that probably all the media outlets that I get information from are biast against Russia. HOWEVER, I think there is no political situation that warrants suppressing free speech and detaining journalists. Let's just assume Russia is right and all these journalists are lying through their teeth about the situation. I seriously doubt that but if they were lying, threatening, beating and detaining journalists isn't the right way to counter those lies. The pro-Russians in comment sections are usually pretty bad at arguing just because their only argument seems to be "Western media is lying to you" which is not well supported. I just want to see them explain why detaining and even torturing a journalist before having any evidence to even suggest he is a spy is right. The Russian government are just a bunch of thugs. Not saying anyone else isn't but they definitely are.
overbe Also "Western mass media and governments are sticking their nose into foreign country's business" is no where near a good enough reason to justify how Russia treats journalists.
overbe How is it an illegitmate government? The ex president fled to Russia, and parliament impeached him unanimously (his own party voted for it). Because the president is run out of town doesnt mean the rest of the system stops working.
Mad Marak he dont understand nothing,he don't knou Ukrainian law,so called goverment illegitimate,also they called our goverment hunta(but realy people in goverment stay the same people who was in 2013 year).Trust russian - trick yourself.
this guy is such a badass. i can't believe he just refused to give them the password even though he thought he was going to get beaten up.
***** Oh my god, Please tell me you are a troll, and not just some immature conspiracy theorist. Your messages are all over this video's comment section, because you think that every person who believes that this happened is an idiot. In addition, you use plenty of negative American stereotypes on commenters because you just assume they are American. (No, just so you know, I am not American, just because I know you'll lash back for that reason.)
Yeah, that all i have to... OH WAIT, GRAMMAR
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***** Great argument! You seem very intelligent :)
*****
cool story bro!
Without knowing any facts, you easily can see that those in charge and those who gave the interview (pro-Russian forces) are more crime related dudes and mercenaries than army guys. For those who speak Russian its not hard to notice their
uneducated, angry and overconfident way of speech. This kind of situation reminds me the era after soviet union, when gang mobs took over governments factories and took protection in the private sector and eventually were called the "business-men" and got acknowledged by the government as a legit businessman. That is the way Russia run thing, just look at the gangster they placed to lead Chechnya (Akhmad Kadyrov). You'll see that when this conflict is over, those gangsters will be the mayors of the Russian-occupied cites.
People say that ukrainians are fascist, but the real people who act like fascist are pro-russians and russians(not all) who support this war.
And there you have it; the simplest explanation to the current oligarchy adopted in Russia. Mobsters becoming KGB/FBS agents, rising the ranks through eliminating authority and blackmailing their own, scaring actual business man and making them to give their businesses to them and eliminating any and all competition via violence. New generation of future oligarchs were created in Chechnya to compensate those that have betrayed Putin on the past several years, which is the sole reason why Russia actually got in there.
@@deusfuckingvult9727 To be fully honest and objective; both parties have shown extreme fascist behavior; through the centuries. Mistake of one, doesn't compensate the mistake of another one. It's like saying, "Nazi's were great since they at least had an ideal behind them, whilst USA finances terror all over middle-east for their personal gains".
As an observer, I've always been curious about what Ukrainian people feel regarding Russia's assault on the eastern side and taking Crimea.
It's always made me mad, because Ukraine is a sovereign nation, but I've heard that many of the people in more populated areas support the Russian action. Is this true?
@@kleinemaus6094 yep, true , its just complex history of east slavs
“She’s our invited guest”
“Press X to Doubt”
Nothing to worry about. RT says those are local peaceful protestor's
What I learned: 1) The Geneva Convention guarantees cigarettes 2) Eastern Ukraine is a Kafkaesque cliche.
"Asking about my ethnic background" probably means asking if he is Jewish (which he is). This must have been incredibly frightening
he has russian/ukrainian lastname. They cared wether he's ukrainian or russian i guess
@@warfumble12 nah Oscar has a point there given the long history of Jewish Russian/Ukrainian and Orthodox Russian/Ukrainian relations
@@alexxistiredofyourbullshit7144one could say the same about catholic/Jewish relations.
"she is not under arrest she is in our custody." "stop asking me questions that I don`t want because I`ll arrest you." Ahh those are surely some trustworthy guys. You can even tell by their faces and mannerisms that they are good and honest ppl.
(takes blindfold off)
She is our invited guest!
>.
glad to have you back simon, ur a damn fine reporter and your coverage of the ukraine will go down in history. always looked forward to your reports on what the hells going on over there. totally could understand if u didnt want to go back there, but either way your one of the best journalists ive seen in recent times. long live simon and long live vice
another one to that , glad to see that he is free now hope that this doesn't happen again .
Simon thanks for exposing the truth!!!!
Simon is a west payed journalist hes is payed for spreading lies. wake up boy !
Yes, everyone knows Russians are perfect.
Haha 😂😂😂😂 this trolls dont even make me angry anymore lol
Doesn't matter, he reported in about as fair and balanced a way as you could have possible done.
nived3211 Well, there is a lot of room to make it more fair and balanced. Your idea of possibilities is limited. Just the way they name videos is already misleading and pushes the audience closer to a certain idea. Bad journalism. Not fairly reported at all, even though yes, some important moments, that actually disprove his idea of anti-Russia and anti-Putin were not cut off. Respect for that, but some not bright people just make conclusions out of the report heading and do not use their brain to make their own conclusions... The aim of a good journalism is to not show one's own believes.. It has to be 100% neutral to be as fair as it possibly could be
not many people in the world are as brave as Simon. i love the depth of investigative news of ukraine he brings us. respect.
Simon is Vices best reporter in my opinion.
Agreed
Agreed
they are all great
***** yes of course, it's run by reptilians who want nothing more than to enslave the human race while they play around in bohemian grove fucking each other with deer masks on and every night they'll sacrifice 20,000 of us to the bat god
***** oh my god your an idiot
-Are you threatening us?
-No, we’re just warning you.
I had a good laugh when those russian whore say that! "threatening - adjective - having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner."
***** You do realize that Russia has a 1% (or even less) class of oligarchs that also controls most of the natural resources and the economy/politics in general (and so does the whole world), don’t you? Or perhaps do you believe you live in a classless socialist utopia?
simon has fucking balls
+Kate Ivanenko (Катя Іваненко) Simon is a spy for the CIA/Mossad.
stfup arrested not kidnaped
Weak ass Russian puppets
Explain to me exactly what it is that YOU have against Mr Putin? Do you prefer the satanic Zionist/Bankster criminals that OWN you and amerika? Do you approve of YOUR beloved government's war crimes in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria and the millions they have MURDERED? Please explain.
+Safe Nabors Don't act like Russia is a peaceful country, remember the USSR and what misery it caused? Remember Afghanistan? How about Syria, your people bomb civilians with impunity because Assad gave them immunity. Putin might be good for Russia, but not for the world. You are bullying your neigbhors like Ukraine and causing problems. How many people died there because of your President giving weapons? Brainwashed Putinbot only sees what Putin tells him to see because he is too afraid to end up like Boris Nemtsov.
I have nominated Ostrovsky for a TOP award in journalism. I count him as one of my heroes among those exposing the TRUTH about the situation of conflict in Ukraine and exposing Russia's WAR CRIMES.
I +1 this!
Огромная просьба к редакторам VICE: у вас несколько национальных версий журнала, значит у вас достаточно переводчиков, национальных редакторов и корректоров, чтобы оттитровать на всех языках вашего журнала видео! Волей судьбы ваш новостной канал в UA-cam стал главным мировым СМИ, у вас есть та информация, которой больше нет не у кого, у вас самые содержательные материалы по самым важным и горячим мировым событиям, поэтому очень важно, чтоб видео были максимально доступны людям, которые не знают английского языка.
Вот и займись этим)
Человек рассказывает как его держали в застенках и избивали.При этом очень хорошо выглядит.Не синяка,не царапины.
kampariin он сказал что они специально его в лицо не били, и использовали ладони а не кулаки
Ты и переведи, я знаю что длительный процесс, но думаю, что VICE возражать не будет
I'm sure there's plenty of people who will say otherwise, but any order that opens up a press conference with "We will be monitoring what you say" is not fit to lead, and has not done so since the 1980's
"hes being detained, working on a new story"
man, thats some cold russian sense of humor right there....
"Peaceful militia" my ass.
Simon Ostrovsky #Respect
Wise up you clown.
TheRisenPeopleEire about what?
Heretic123456
Respect simon for what ? He has been running about from day one given bias reports one sided slants etc and you blind followers of vice come on here and give him props because he was kidnapped :S... Makes me sick you people fall for all this shit.
TheRisenPeopleEire Didn't know Putin had a youtube account.
TheRisenPeopleEire Clearly sone people aren't used to democracy. Where I'm from, if we disagree with someones reporting we don't lock them up and beat them up
And yet there is an Nazi Parade in Lvov today (West-ukraine) , with SS Flags. No reports from the western media. OFC the East is chaotic now, but I would prefer to see the west too.
Still I'm glad Simon is unharmed.
so what, US has KKK marches every once in a while, doesn't mean that everyone in US is KKK and a racist. There are idiots on both sides of the conflict, there are these pro-Russian idiots and these ultra-nationalist idiots.
Ukrainsky the killing of jews or other ethnicities is not Nazi... If you want to go back to WW2 Stalin killed nearly double the people that Hitler killed.. Both men were pure evil. Lucky for the allies Hitler pissed Stalin off and made things much easier.
***** Including shooting his own men for retreating, even Hitler was not so cruel a man he just had a sick lust for the blood of those he blamed... WTF was Stalins excuse... There isn't one he was just one psychotic son of a bitch using cruel methods to strike a point, much like Vlad the Impailer.
Stan Roze Even Russia has Neo Nazis look it up.
Seth Rogen В России нет парадов нацистов
In Russia there are no parades nazis
Still watching in 2019. You can tell he’s got PTSD. Respect.
This is an ode to all reporters around the world, thank you for your service. Those of you servicing the people and sharing your brave stories deserve to be treated like the greatest heroes of our time. Thank you Simon Ostrovsky.
This is 2014 and some people think we're still in the cold war. Wake up, 1989 was a long time ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the few communist countries that still exist are the poorest in the world (North Korea, Cuba). Don't bother to call me "fascist, imperialist, CIA agent" and all those cliches, you only think in white (comrade) or black (fascist) for you there's no middle. I live in Venezuela and we are experiencing the so-called "socialism" in first hand: lies, corruption, hunger and huge lines of people to buy toilet paper. The Ukrainian people have my sympathies, don't let these communist hypocrites rule your country.
No es la guerra fria pero ese mamaguevo de Putin quiere volver a empezarla y traer devuelta el poder que tenia la Union Sovietica. Ojala no empieze denuevo y ese HDP se joda al igual que Nicolas Maduro y Fidel Castro. Todos los hptas comunistas merecen lo peor francamente.....
Yes you should wake up, Russia is not communist and it's people hated communism, a bunch of drunks ran the country and liked 'gifts'.
China is a communist socialist state and yet coming from the poorest in the 60s to the 2nd largest economy now it proves your story wrong and also it will over take your mighty America in a year or 2. Democracy has as much lying and corruption, there is no perfect government system, you just need good, dedicated and honest people such as Putin and Jinping to run it and the fact that you don't realise that shows how much your country must still learn to take initiative and stand up for yourselves or maybe you enjoy the gay propaganda.
I would vote for Rob Ford before I would vote for this mayor.
Nobody voted for him. There wasn't an election going on. He just randomly appointed himself.
***** He will protect the people by ultimately killing them. You have to wonder when the Russians will notice the flaw in this form of reasoning.
Bang DingOW Damn right he is.
Still a few real journalists left in the world. Godspeed Simon
"Are you threatening us?"
"No, we're just warning you.."
In context of the situation, there is little or no difference, woman. stop with the bullshit.
They say journalists will be arrested for "lying" then say the mayor is not being detained or held, lmao. Then threatens the press again. Russian logic.
To the normal world detaining press, threatening them, and putting huge restrictions is just evidence that you are lying. Not to Russian commentators though. That is evidence that you are the most moral.
Ukrainian separatists threaten journalist in Ukraine - blame russians. Logic...
Вася Пупкин
slav internet defense force out in full tonight i see
Вася Пупкин
Logic...!?? Nowhere to be found ... On the other hand, what logic one would expect from Вася Пупкин ?
Victor Podolsky
I have to withdraw my prev comment on Вася Пупкин msg - I didn't get it first time. Vasya rules !
Glad Simon's OK.
The whole episode prooves what kind of people these pro-russians are.
not all pro-russians. don't make sweeping assumptions like that. these are a power seeking lawless minority. Many many pro-russians do not sponsor this kind of thing at all.
opmdevil LOL, typical run of the mill racist right here
Purposly Where do you see racism and rasists? What race has to do with this?
Purposly You're saying that all pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine are a unique race? LOL.
opmdevil yeah its not racism, more of chauvinism
>takes her out in blindfold
>she says she wants to leave
>"shes here as our guest"
ok bro
I was on a plane with this guy in from Ukraine to the states in December and I thought I recognised him but I didn't talk to him cause I was thinking he isn't who i thought he was. Oh man, do I regret that.
And here we go Again, looking through the comments, we have all the conspiracy theorists. Saying that Simon was lying, when he was talking to the reporter. I mean for fucks sake, look at his eyes, he cannot make eye contact, he is bursting out, he is red in his face, and he keeps on saying and. He was having a hard time saying those Things. If he was lying, he would be taking his time with his Words, having more pauses. I do not think he was lying. I think he went through some shit, and he came out to tell the story. And now a bunch of anti-westerners are coming to call him a liar, because what he is saying, is not excatly making them look good.
ya that seems what it looks like to me, ive been following him since the 7th vid he posted and because he is an american is why he was held , almost for sure, the amount of cia and fbi plants in the country im not surprised he was held and interrogated. i think hes been giving a fairly unbiased reporting of the situation, which also could be why hes been targeted but more than anything else, the forces in sloviansk knew that ukrainian troops were coming, they already hit donetsk, and because the mayor of donetsk is being held now by the ukrainian troops, they wanted to find out if he was a cia plant. or if he was sending deployment pics etc to right sector or the ukranian military , if u were about to be attacked by 15,000 troops and tanks (thats what ive heard is mobilized now) you'd probably hold a few people hostage to. ( not saying that its OK!)
Well said, Marcus! The tired old notion that not looking someone in the eye means you are lying has been comprehensively disproven by research in the past 20 years or so. Liars are more likely to fix people in the eyes in order to 'look' honest. People telling truthful accounts of events are usually too focused on their thoughts to concentrate on staring the other person in the eye, which can be a distraction from thinking about what they want to talk about.
Open hand slaps to the ears can cause some intense hearing loss.
He is so damn chill
Simon is a legend. He deserves his own show.
You're my hero Simon! After all you been through you still want to go out and report. I can't imagine how terrifying that must have been. Best journalist in my opinion, thanks for all you do!
Best live reporting of this whole mess. Thank you, Simon.
“Are you threatening us” “no we’re just warning you” 😂
warning is not a threat!
The craziest part of all.. was right after his release. He told the Canadian broadcast he wanted back in..
That. Takes. Balls.
this guy is fearless
or he could be lying!!
SAILAJ ya i guess, but if he isnt wow, if he is, wow. but hes a good reporter IMO
Pro-Russian trolls are ALL OVER this comments section! I thought I'd seen everything on the Internet, but damn.
Apparently they are getting paid from the state budget too.
simon. bad ass. keep on reporting!
Thank you Mr. Ostrovsky for your bravery and excellent coverage of important issues. Your stories are what brought me and my family to Vice news.
I wonder how much Vice pays the main correspondents like Simon, Thomas, etc? Working for Vice is just as prestigious and mainstream as CNN now.
Cleaning public toilets at a train station is more prestigious than working for CNN.
imhellag simon is the boss of vice lol
CNN is clown news network
CNN? Ahaha! Thanks for the laugh.
This comment didn't age well
The pro-Russian justifications in the comment section are growing increasingly more hilarious
***** Yeah, the worrying part definitely crossed my mind as well haha
When this guy was drinking in the train with the Canadian, it was like a scene from a movie.
Yep
Glad you're ok buddy. I highly respect your work.
The Mayor is doing is very best to come off as a mobster. A track suit really?
I love when he says she is not being held or anything but she is in custody, actually had to look up definition of custody to be sure how contradicting that statement was
I love how all the Pro Russian people in the comments are saying he is "Biased". However if you actually watched the dispatches, Simon very rarely gives his opinion. He uses video evidence to show what people are doing sand saying. Its their own words and actions that make then look bad. Simon is just recording it for the world to see. =)
dont worry, its called denial....its like when you love someone (in this case russia) then watch as they fuck someone else (in this case beat up) ...at first youll feel shit, then youll stop feeling shit and go into denial, where you accept them again...but later down the road youll realise that you were being an idiot...hopefully at some stage the goons will realise russia doesnt love them and is infact fucking their sisters in the ass when they arent looking (this is a metaphor, dont take it literally lol)
Will you stop with the " pro Russian " garbage? Everything is a lot more complicated than that. There are tons of Rebels who identify as Ukrainians, myself included. My problems with what happened in 2014 didn't start with my surrogate brothers- Oleg Tsarev and Pavel Gybarev- and what happened to them. They started ages ago when the Ukrainian government developed this idiotic obsession with Petlyura, Bandera and Shukhevich, knowing full well that those clowns are toxic and divisive, that at least half of Ukraine doesn't want them as national heroes. Petlyura's scum almost massacred my adoptive Jewish mother's family during the 1918 Civil War in Kremenchyg. My great grandfather was almost lynched and survived because people got to him in time, my grandmother was raped. And I'm supposed to be OK with visiting Kiev and walking down the Petlyura Street or some such??? Are you guys for real?
legend has it he killed all the guards with his hands and broke through the whole complex
The whole Ukrainian crisis is nothing but a Russian invasion. Maybe we should take the patches abd insignias off our soldiers and equipment and pay a nice visit to Moscow. Keep up the good work Simon, stay safe and keep reporting!
James Coleman You can try, so did Napoleon and Hitler, see how that will work out for you.
+Milos Vukasinovic (Miloslolz) Well, if Hitler hadn't of been fixated on Stalingrad, he might of had made it to Moscow. Give 70 years worth of advancement in technology, Im sure our boys wouldn't have too much of a problem versus hired oligarch thugs.
Don't underestimate the Russian Army, the United States has the most advanced one, but Russia itself has developed. VICE news is extremely bias on the Crimea situation, and the West doesn't care about Ukraine, they want to see eternal conflict.
+Milos Vukasinovic (Miloslolz) maybe we should try it the Mongol way, like Genghis Khan. worked pretty well to keep Russia down for hundreds of years. even putin himself admitted that in one of his interviews. are there even any genuine russians left after hundreds of years of mongol domination?
seriously though, it's a great country with great people but the political leaders have always ruined it. It's time for some EuroRedSquare in Moscow...
That's complete bias or western talk, as if America and Europe is any better. America for example has the most hated government in the world, why? I'll tell you why, their superior attitude to do what ever the heck they want, placing bases all over the world, not to mention using ISIS as a cover up.
Thank you Simon for your great work. My thoughts were with you during your captivity. Keep up the good and important work you do, its much needed!
Badass dude, good reporter, didn't just give them his password, kept his cool, I admire you man!
Damn watching this whole series I've noticed that the women seem to be more brutal than the men
I like how chill he is about everything and so honest about it all too.
Fun fact: 2 years ago a number of polls were conducted in Crimean predominantly Russian-speaking high schools. Over 80% of kids ages 16-17 indicated that they favor closer ties to EU and Western-styled government rather than a trade agreement with Russia. Once Putin's generation dies out and these kids (and kids in the rest of Russia) get to power, the Russia as we know it will cease to exist.
Given its size and diversity Russia cannot be easily governed with anything but an authoritarian regime. Therefore, Russia will most likely split up yet again into smaller sovereign states along the ethnic lines. Give it 15-20 years.
there were solution of problem with this diversity... in former russian constitution the russia was a federative state, but now it's not by the fact. now it has an imperialistic government. so sad, but there is no common sense in the people. soviet background made a bad joke with russians.
it's very shoking to wake up in fascist country with most people apploud aggression.
I'm so proud of Simon,he 's been so diplomatic through all of this, i know i'd freak out if i were in his situation. amazing person, I hope he can keep fighting for the people who want this world to be better
Shit, they probably sent him back because they couldn't get a reaction out of him. Simon's a damn brick of steel.
This documentary is so important and revelating of what happened there. We should all share those videos so a start of truth will come out of this despicable war.
yes please. Be sure to watch all the dispatches from the beginning so you can see that ukraine was just as belligerent as russia during this conflict/war that's been ongoing since 2014.
@@gerri577 sure i did and had the opposite conclusion.
@gerri577 The Russian invasion and seizure of Crimea is as belligerent as it gets, and that was before Russia engineered the 'uprising' in Donbass.
Are you going to call Ukrainians "belligerent" for defending their homes?
@@gerri577what baligerance? I've watched most of the series so far I've just seen Ukraine leaving the chrimea without hostilities and then mounting underprepair3d counters to Russian terrorism.
Its good to see people are starting to remember what state security was like in old Russia. Remember guys, there's a reason the West if full of Russian immigrants and practically no Westerners in Russia...,
Brave journalist. Glad he made it out. Sad what's going on over there.
Brave propagandist you mean? no
MrRambo438 rambo, go fuck yourself troll.
"She is not detained, she is in our custody.... I'm not threatening you, I'm warning you." Get is straight or else... Damn! The 'or else' was seriously scary!! Much respect for this brave man!
This is so sad and disconcerting. I wish your footage was much more present in the western media, especially these days. Thanks for all your work!
I am getting addicted to his documentary and journalism style and those reports from Ukraine. Simon, good luck for your and continue your job which is amazing!
Dear Simon,
Thank you very much for your bravery, and your reporting. Very happy that you are safe and in good health.
Kindest Regards
he is as brave as he is smart and insightful. amazing journalism!
Brilliant journalism! Bravo!
Part of your job is being brave and Simon handles it exceptionally well.
I'm thankful that due to Simon Ostrovsky, other brave journalists and the rise of internet news we are now able to see on the ground footage that otherwise would be edited, cut to pieces and taken out of context by major news networks.
You might not think it from reading the youtube message boards but we appreciate the risk you guys take.
The INTERNET means these people are MORE DANGEROUS ! than they were before,
In the past people used to laugh at them. They were mostly confined to the Warsaw Pact.
Give this guy an award. A true journalist at heart..
" Every so often, you have to take a beating. " the late Henry Hill, mobster