The Sun’s Jerome Starkey says his friend was “press-ganged” after a seemingly routine traffic stop
The Sun’s defense editor, Jerome Starkey, has claimed that his Ukrainian colleague and translator was forcibly drafted into the army amid the country’s ongoing conscription crisis.
In a story published over the weekend, Starkey wrote that he, photographer Peter Jordan, and an unnamed Ukrainian journalist he has “worked with for years” were stopped by Ukrainian soldiers at a roadblock for what seemed like a routine document check.
Starkey said that, several hours later, his Ukrainian colleague was “forcibly press-ganged” into the army. “Our team of three was ripped apart. My friend – who I will call D – had his liberty taken away,” he wrote, adding that the news crew was “left stranded without a translator.”
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