The editor of two Russian-language newspapers who was seized last month in eastern Ukraine and who was believed to have been held by Ukrainian government forces has been found dead, his colleague said in an online post.
The body of Sergei Dolgov, who was an editor at newspapers Hochu v SSSR, or “I want to be in the USSR,” and Vestnik Priazovya, or “The Azov Region Courier” was found in a park near the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, according to a message posted on the Vkontakte page of Konstantin Dolgov, the editor of Glagol online news portal.
Konstatin Dolgov, who is also a leader of the pro-separatist People’s Front of Novorossiya movement, added that his namesake had been “tortured” by kidnappers, saying “the enhanced interrogation ended in the death of the journalist.”
According to employees of Vestnik Priazovya, Dolgov had been missing since mid-June when masked men armed with automatic rifles barged into their editorial offices in the eastern Ukrainian town of Mariupol and abducted Dolgov, tying up his hands with wire, 24.com.ua reported.