MOSCOW, August 08./ITAR-TASS/. A major Russian news agency said on Friday it has lost contact with one of its photo journalists working in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

The state-run Rossiya Segodnya news agency (former RIA Novosti) last heard from Andrei Stenin on August 5, said Alexander Shtol, the head of the agency's photo service.

He said that the journalist could have gone to the town of Shakhtersk with the militia. "We are trying to get in contact [with him]," Shtol said.