This is the moment when Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford and his team in eastern Ukraine were stopped and questioned by Ukrainian soldiers, as shots were fired in the background.
Video footage shows Mr. Stratford and his team raising their hands while shouting “journalists” as soldiers are heard saying “stop filming” as gunfire rings out.
There are increasing fears amongst the Ukrainian military and security services about what they described as saboteurs trying to get in cities and compromising military positions.
Ukrainian officials say street fighting is underway in Kyiv against Russian forces, and they are urging residents to seek immediate shelter.
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Those such as Sweden who claim neutrality are only adding to the flame by arming Ukraine, things will only escalate
Ohh so that’s why there’s zero evidence of this fake war except for staged or falsely attributed videos? Convenient
Things the Russian didn’t do like it . And i haven’t seen a video of Russian soldiers doing things like that even for the poeple who attack them or try to stop their troops
Everything almost fake
What a title! Why don’t you specify which soldiers? Why didn’t explain more about what happened. If it happened with the russian forces would you use the same title. Shame on you
Good for you keep detaining them all they are is talking trash about ukrainians and given President Putin all the props
Bless you all ukrainians for safety and strength never give up and never give in keep on fighting
Save life save world save
“Mostly peaceful” detention of journalists?
We can learn a lot from tactical Ukrainian freedom fighters in the U.S. as our country is increasingly under attack from domestic extremists that seem to praise these acts by Putin.
Seeing this is why we must fight for real journalists!!
If I were manning a checkpoint and a van with guys dressed like that (-body armor, helmets) came up trying to drive around, I’m pretty dam’d sure that vehicle is going to get a round in it’s engine block.
It doesn’t matter this is war and everyone is at risk
So sorry for that aljazeera
The people forgot that… this reporter left his wife, children, home, friends, city and country. he go war and coverage the suffering the Ukrainians. and in the end … the Ukrainians do this with him. I think it is defective … I do not know ..
Al Jazeera was supposed to ask for an official apology, at least! from the Ukrainian President 😒
Lol detained bullshit
Loose lips sink ships
WHY DONT YOU HAVE “PRESS” STAMPED ON EVERYTHING MAN?
Milita cat let out the bag
If President Putin is right then don’t be afraid for all of you countries to follow President Putin’s steps

you are lucky.. may be you are giving info to the russians.. by using as a journalist..
I m discontent
Journalist…journalist… LOL! most people don’t know that world excepts English speakers.
Hope the reporters on the ground are paid extra well for this ordeal
UNITED EUROPE NO.1
This guy and his team are heroes! ❤
Well you now how is the peoples the americas and europeans backing up
Final some good news Al Jazeera got beaten up
Si good
This life If you do good good follow you
Scary!
Ukraine Russian Belarus president 2021 2022 dictator relocation 2023 2024 2025 re-elected reelection saboteurs in Belarus Russian Ukraine USSR. Shoot kill all journalists who. Gave promises government spy. Working all cyber Monday security C.T.S J.T.T.F..lying. disinformation..wow all reporter’s will be shot. All news ..all internet shut down..in former Russian Belarus 🇧🇾. Red line..
Whose soldiers detained them?
Yes all propaganda and fake news needs to be stop at all cost
Many journalist teams have had the same requests “not to film”, it is to protect their strategies in the eyes of the “enemy. Nothing personal.
Let’s go Brandon/Putin
Putin will be permanently silenced fatally, by his own people in a town square
Oooh scary.
With all the weapons floating around and the pictures of slaughtered civilians suspected “saboteurs” already being available it’s only a matter of days maybe hours before a televisioncrew gets shot.
If it happened to be a Russian Soldier, the alternative narrative would be “this is an act of aggression towards media”…🤦♂️
Check out BBC CNN sky reports 7 years ago on neo-nazism rise in Ukraine
Calla,calla,actuará el VAR como en el fútbol,calla,calla !!!!!!!!!
British guy = propaganda
Peace to the world
You might want to notify the Ukrainians that you will be filming in certain areas so they don’t confuse you with saboteurs. I understand why they were so tense, considering you could have been in disguise of journalists while filming strategic positions for the Russians. Stay safe, and communicate more with the Ukrainians so this doesn’t happen often.
Yep They were trained by the CIA
This is not iraq afghanistan labiya war here is different rusia is powerful and anerica cannot kill all rusia like in muslim countries .it will be different .go to peace not to help some one for fighting
They were probably Russian soldiers dressed as Ukrainians. You are selling their propaganda.
Ukrainians can’t trust civilians anymore. There’s reports of saboteurs and spies masking as civilians. Also Russian soldiers who are dispersed from their units are hiding in the cities. Some stealing civilian cars and escaping. This is going to make the Ukrainians sadly more paranoid and brutal but can’t blame them. Hopefully the real civilians understand the fear the Ukrainian soldiers are going through and why they’re being so thorough. Russia has just sent a 3 mile long convoy. The last thing the Ukrainians want are attacks from the inside.
Brave testimony of independent journalism. At the same time that France24, ABC and BBC press teams are escorted and guided by Ukrainian army
I understand that russian saboteurs could disguise themselves as a journalist team with hidden weapons. Or any other disguise. So this was necessary.
You almost died selling a narative
God bless you🙌🙌🙌
Pakistan 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 love you Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Al Jazeera is often overlooked and that’s sad. The reports are honest and understandable.
Sorry for your loss but there is risk unbeknowst to globe trotting journalist of electronic surveillance via smart phone spyware like Pegasus that could compromise a war zone military checkpoint (which could possibly get the military personnel there killed) – so there is a reasonable fear of that smart phone they destroyed. Scary stuff … in War zone needs to stay cool. and calm even when things get hot….
Well that why the Ukrainians are on there own . They should never have bitten the hand that feed them .
Liars there were russian soldiers😂
Protest about Oil prices NOT mandates and masks.
Protest outside Oil company and Supermarket executive homes instead of Vote officials and Fauci.
Ask First Nations, Blacks, Latinos, Asians & Pacific Islanders if “America stands up for freedom” J.Biden
Clean up your own house before pointing fingers at others..
Putin NOT Russia wants Ukraine because he misses the Soviet Union before it’s fall in 1991.
England took 54 countries in 1840. Will England ever return all the wealth it plundered?
America took 7 states from Mexico in 1848. California, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico & Western Colorado.
American Republicans and MAGATs remove Native, Black & Hispanic history from school libraries..
❤️❤️❤️RUSSIA
That’s the nazi’s Putin was talking about.
I saw this video and the title said russians kill civilans
Romans 10.13. whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved. Jesus is lord
Bastards
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Ukraine needs to liberate the Dumbass region
got yourself a real mouthfull this time putzky try not choke to death or any of your friends either as justice is coming and will not be denied
oh God! what is going on?
Ukrainian r nazis. Thats what Mr. Putin is saying & treating those nazis they are supposed to be treated.
I’m an American Indian . . . I can understand the distrust . . . 🧐⚠️
From Vietnam, I beg the world to continue to support Ukraine with weapons, so that they can continue to fend off the surprise attacks of the Putin fascists. Today Ukraine is invaded, later maybe my country and your country are invaded by bombs.🍀🍀🍀🍀🌻🌻
When NATO murdered Muammar Gaddafi, Western media called it “Military intervention” and they no longer bother to report that the evil military action led by Obama has left Libya in worse condition.
George Bush and Tony Blair lied that Saddam Hussein has weapon of mass destruction just to invade Iraq. After they destroyed the country and captured Saddam Hussein who was consequently executed, Bush said “We do not know whether or not (Iraq) has nuclear weapon.” Both men who engineered a tragedy that took over 250,000 lives are not even facing trials for war crimes. Western media do not paint them in bad light as it ought to be.
Western media will not tell you that Ukraine has been forcing Luhansk and Donetsk regions to be part of it, in spite of vast majority of the people choosing to be independent via a referendum. What they want you to believe is that Vladimir Putin is bullying innocent Ukraine for pleasure.
Western media will not tell you that trampling on Ukraine’s sovereignty is not Moscow Kremlin’s main aim but survival against US-led NATO’s encroachment, with the insistence on admitting Ukraine into NATO after allowing other Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to join.
America can recognise the independence of Taiwan but Russia cannot recognise the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk.
America can recognise Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel but Russia cannot take back its people in Crimean Peninsula after they voted to join them.
Western media want you to believe that the West is always right while Russia and China are the perpetual bad guys.
Where are your press uniform? You don’t have any markings. Beside even so not like can totally be trusted. Don’t make yourself suspicious.
Brave journalists, maybe there should be some way for the soldiers to quickly determine known and trusted news reporters. At this rate they might accidentally kill actual journalists which will only weaken ukraines political position and may even give putin more ideas as to why they are invading. Stay safe and stay alive. Russia will not get away with these crimes against humanity. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!
finally a good evidence that Putin is indeed right about the majority of Western Ukranians being nazistic in their way of thinking, and the same can be said about the ethnic Baltic people. l live in The Baltic States and they adore Hittler, and when visiting Ukraine, people l didn’t even know, walked up to me , telling me as well how they agreed with Hittler’s ideology. Right extremists are everywhere in Europe. I lived in France, Netherlands, etc… and l can tell you that there is many of these extremists all over Europe !!!!
Because Ukraine presents to the world mostly theater fake scenes.
Hope soon Chechens clean up Ukraine of scum.
Aljazeera is a spy for the Russians, that’s why they were kicked out of Israel for being in cohorts with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
Non-European such as Asians, Africans and Middle Easterners should take lessons on how the Europeans come together when one of their own is attacked.
Not sabotage, Russian special forces & mercenaries hired by Czarina puti to destroy, cut communications.
Your are going to enjoy the Ukrainian militia, and mafia, armes now, – Ukrainian civilian also are going to suffer from random executions …
Journalists, normally mad people. Respect
To all the other news outlets telling one sided stories, borrow a page from Aljazeera, telling it from both sides is the only true Journalism. all the rest are just a pack of rubbish.
//////////// The Ukrainian ambassador has released a conversation on a smartphone at the United Nations,
claiming that it was a conversation between a Russian soldier who died while being mobilized to invade his country.
Ukrainian UN ambassador to the United Nations Sergi Kislitya opened and read a copy of the conversation on the smartphone of a Russian soldier
who died in the invasion of Ukraine on the 28th of last month (local time) at the UN Emergency Special Assembly.
According to him, the soldier said, “I’m not in Crimea anymore. I’m not in training. Mom, I’m in Ukraine now.”
“There is a real war going on here and they (Ukrainians) are falling under our armored vehicles,” he said.
“We’re blowing up every city. We’re even targeting civilians,” said the dead soldier.
* When a dictator emerges, he drives the peace-loving people to the battlefield and tries to maintain power.
Such actions will eventually lead to nuclear war, which will wipe out the people of Earth.
In order to maintain peace, the dictators who caused war must be captured and executed.
Just surrender Zelensky! Your life is not worth being a Zionist puppet. If you and your family was standing in front of speeding truck and you had time to get everyone to safety and chose not to. Then you are the murderer. The blood of Ukrainians is on your hands. You can end this war. The west calling this an unprovoked attack is propaganda lies. This has been a long time coming almost 10 years. Putin’s concerns fell on deaf ears. Putin gave y’all his word on what was going to happen and everyone chose to ignore him. Don’t be surprised and cry if Putin nukes y’all off the map. He already told you guys he’s putting his nuke team on standby. Why do you guys keep choosing to ignore him??? Zelensky end this war! We the people want PEACE!! Say No to NATO and the ZIONIST GLOBAL BANKING SYSTEM! The synagogue of satan!
Peace. Now. For the sake of humanity. 💗☮️
PLEASE! 👈🏻 WEAR VESTS AT ALL TIMES CLEARLY showing- 》PRESS
Ukraine’s army is cowardly forcing unarmed not fighting to Russians.
Russians just doing there jobs too
Is this what Ukraine wants??
believe that Russia and Chechen president are the best men on earth who show their nobility by standing off when civilians were on streets .
Not like USA ( 1. who killed Iraq men women and children ruthlessly, families were killed in Iraq by USA troops in raid . Their women were raped by USA troops.
2. USA killed ten and 12 years old children in a madras/ school in a direct air raid in Afghanistan and called it collateral damage,
They denied Afghanistan their own money that was in foreign countries to feed their country many innocent civilians suffered due to unjust sanctions from USA . USA is a ruthlessly country who goes around the world and they kill and destroy economies of other countries just to show what a big bully they are !!
Some countries civilians write on their walls death to USA ! Now I understand why !
3.USA killed Syrian civilians without mercy , a body of a three year old children was found in Turkish beach that came from Syrian civilians trying to escape the war led by USA in their country.
Chechen and Russia troops are hero’s to their enemies even if they are standing off or not killing innocent civilians.
May God bless them to show kindness to Ukrainian people and to show that even war has compensation. My heart is warmed on how Ukrainian people are acting because they know very well that the enemies will not kill them ( otherwise Ukrainian people holding a gun on street to defend themselves is like a kitten trying to fight off a lion ) Chechen and Russian troops/ lions are showing mercy to Ukrainian people. ❤️
isreali never show mercy towards Palestine people nor does Indian government officials show mercy to Muslim/ Christian minority in India , they killed civilians but Russian and Chechen troops are God sent army .
RIP Mr. Moto. ):
Ukrainian Vice minister of Interior uploaded photos of murders of a family of 5 with 3 young kids in their vehicle with the title “Russian saboteurs eliminated”. Was he too “just doing his job”? He handed out Ak74s to young thugs who then shot this family because “they looked suspicious”. When a Ukrainian blogger asked him what exactly do 3 young children have to do with “Russian sabotage” the Vice minister responded with swearing and threats: “don’t you worry, we will find you wherever you are”. What the civilised world desperately needs to know, what you need to know, and what you will NEVER, under any circumstances be told, even if Ukrainian government will start rounding up all Russian speakers and shooting them is that THERE IS NO MORALLY SUPERIOR SIDE IN THIS WAR! Both people in Kremlin and people on Bankovaya in Kiev are CRIMINALS. The best thing that soldiers on both sides can do is lay down their arms and go back to their families, let their corrupt leaders strangle each other to death THEMSELVES if they so want. And what YOUR GOVERNMENT needs to do is STOP THROWING MORE FUEL INTO THE FIRE. They did EVERYTHING to make sure this war becomes a reality, while lying to you how they “tried to stop it”. Stop prolonging the conflict by giving Kiev the weapons that they will deploy from the middle of the civilian infrastructure in order to provoke return fire on civilian targets. It doesn’t matter who will win this war, because both regimes are equally corrupt. Take care of your own family in your own country. Peace!
Why shoot phone if they are looking for sabatues. Phones have evidence in them. Ukraine seems to be doing a lot of unwanted things such as attacking African and Indian students that wanted to leave. I dont trust the Ukrainians anymore.
Wow big respect to these brave journalists
Russians should kill Alzazera journolists, they only harm good people by doing negative journalism