Mother of missing journalist, Andrey Stenin, asks Red Cross for help in finding her son

The mother of Russian photojournalist, Andrey Stenin, missing in war-torn eastern Ukraine, has addressed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help find her son. Vera Stenina told RT that she addressed the ICRC "because they are looking for missing relatives. And I had hopes that I will be helped there." "They said that they'll try to look for him," the woman told RT, adding that the Red Cross showed "understanding" of her problem. An experienced war photographer, Stenin, who works for the Rossiya Segodnya news agency (formerly RIA Novosti), disappeared on August 5 as he was covering the Ukrainian army's campaign against the anti-Kiev rebels in the country's southeastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Despite over two weeks having passed since his disappearance, the journalist's whereabouts still remain unknown. Last week, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, said that Stenin had been arrested by the Ukrainian Security Service for "aiding and glorifying terrorism," but he then backtracked on the statement.