Pro-Russia forces free 1 Western military observer
By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press
Apr 27, 2014 11:33 AM CDT
CAPTION CORRECTION, MAN AT LEFT IS AXEL SCHNEIDER OF GERMANY, MAN AT SECOND LEFT IS UNIDENTIFIED - Vacheslav Ponomarev, the self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk, right, speaks to a pro-Russian gunman, as two of foreign military observer, one of them Axel Schneider of Germany, left, look to each other...   (Associated Press)

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — At least one of the eight European military observers held prisoner by pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine has been freed.

An Associated Press photographer saw the observer get into a car on Sunday with representatives of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe and drive away.

Earlier in the day, the eight observers had been shown in public for the first time since they were detained on Friday and accused of spying for NATO.

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