Promoting some sort of perverted ideas of Christmas spirit, Russia Today has released a video showing Santa Claus being tied up and gagged by his Russian counterpart, Ded Moroz, in a typical American home.
Liudmyla Surzhenko, a female Ukrainian blogger, who was earlier released from militant captivity in the occupied areas of Donbas had been tortured by her captors for four days, as reported by First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada, Presidential Envoy on peaceful settlement in Donbas Iryna Gerashchenko.
Members of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic ("LPR") have taken a 39-year-old deaf woman hostage at a checkpoint in the occupied sector of the bridge in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska, according to the media portal LIGA.net.
A senior Human Rights Watch activist on Saturday said she fears pro-Moscow rebels have captured a Ukrainian reporter and blogger missing for two weeks in the country's eastern war zone, according to Al Arabiya.
A journalist who has been living in the occupied city of Donetsk since the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine's Donbas and whose articles have been published by Ukrainian media outlets under the pen name Stanislav Vasin went missing last week; his real name is Stanislav Aseyev, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.