BRUSSELS, Sept. 20 - The European Union and the United States expressed concern over the disappearance of a Ukrainian journalist last month and urged Ukraine to do all it can to protect journalists, Reuters reported Monday.
Vasyl Klymentyev, editor-in-chief of the Noviy Stil newspaper, which focuses on corruption in a region of east Ukraine, went missing on Aug. 11, according to police reports.
Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohylyov has said police officers may have been involved in his disappearance. Klymentyev is now presumed dead, though his body has not been found.
An EU statement at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna on Thursday recalled a pledge by President Viktor Yanukovych to uphold media pluralism and protect journalists.
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