US journalist from Wall Street Journal is being held in Russia trends now
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A US journalist has been detained in Russia, where he was reporting on the feared Wagner mercenary group which has been key to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was working in Yekaterinburg, was taken out of a restaurant and put into a van, local reports said early this morning.
Colleagues of the journalist have said that he did not return from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and stopped communicating.
His colleague Dmitry Kolezev said he had been covering attitudes to the war in the city as well as the notorious fighting group, private military company (PMC) Wagner.
'Evan traveled to Yekaterinburg to write about the attitude towards the war and the recruitment of local residents in the PMC Wagner,' he said in a post roughly translated from Russian.
Eyewitnesses reported that people in civilian
