"We were detained like terrorists": Tkach describes his detention in Vienna
Mykhailo Tkach, head of investigative journalism at the Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda, has described his detention in Vienna. He says armed, masked people smashed the car windows and dragged him and his cameraman onto the road.
Mykhailo Tkach, head of the investigative journalism department at the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, has given an account of how he was detained in Vienna, the Austrian capital. His cameraman, Yaroslav Bondarenko, was detained with him.
According to Tkach, armed people wearing masks broke the windows of the car and pulled both him and Bondarenko out onto the road. He says one of them put a knee on his neck while he kept repeating that he was a journalist.
Tkach's own words, used in the headline of the publication, suggest that he and his colleague were treated like terrorists.
The source does not say who carried out the detention, what reason was given at the time, or whether the two men were later released. Those details are not confirmed here.
