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© Aleksandr Kots, Dmitry Steshi A Renault Logan in which Andrei Stenin was reportedly traveling with his companions.
A report has been made claiming that the body of Andrei Stenin, a Russian photojournalist missing since August 5, has been found, but no confirmation was made, and a Russian news article published about it today in the state newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has been deleted.

According to the latest report dated 18:00 Kiev time, August 21 from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine:
The "deputy minister of interior" of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") told the SMM that the "DPR" had found a charred body on a road a few kilometres south-east of Snizhne (Snizhne is 80 km south-east of Donetsk city).

He claimed that the remains were those of a missing Russian journalist, but presented no supporting evidence.
The Russian pro-government online news site Russkaya Planeta had an article on the OSCE statement, then an additional report (translation by The Interpreter)
Updated 18:08 (Moscow Time) According to Komsomolskaya Pravda Dmitry Streshin, burnt passenger vehicle on the road from Dmitrovka to Snezhnoye was found two days ago. As Steshn reports, three bodies were found in the automobile, and also the remains of photography equipment. According to his hypotheses, the passengers were shot "from light small ams" and the car burned up from shelling of the area from missile systems which supposedly occurred later.
Russkaya Planeta published a tweet which was subsequently deleted for reasons unknown, saying they had found the remains and called OSCE:

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Translation: @kp_stteshin We brought a group of forensic experts, they have removed the remains. The forensic experts summoned the OSCE, which in the end put out all the information on the Internet.

Russkaya Planeta then subsequently reported that Streshin and Aleksandr Kots, another war correspondent from Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) published an article with photos from the scene, "How We Searched for Andrei Stenin," which was removed from the KP web site after publication, but was found in Google's cache:

The Interpreterhas translated an excerpt:
In the burn-out frame, the silhouette of the most common Renault can be seen. Nearby are craters from explosions of Grad rockets. But the car itself is riddled with automatic rifle and machine gun rounds. We immediately saw the human remains in the burnt-out interior. One was on the passenger seat, one in the driver's seat and one in the rear. We found one other terrible discovery in the trunk -- two professional camera lenses and the ashes of a lens which scattered from the mount...We also found the Renault logo and the Logan label.

"Clean-ups were going on in the area, the Ukrainian army was breaking out of a kettle. I think they stumbled on such a convoy which had turned down the highway and they began shooting it, [LifeNews correspondent] Semyon Pegov told them.
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© Aleksandr Kots, Dmitry SteshinFound near the remains of the auto -- burnt-up photo lenses.
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© Aleksandr Kots, Dmitry SteshinPossibly these lenses belonged to Andrei.
We do not know why this article and these pictures were removed as there is no explanation. Possibly KP determined that the car and photographic equipment were not confirmed as related to Stenin, or decided to wait for examination of the remains. No other reports of missing photographers are known to have been made.

Stenin went to Ukraine on assignment in May, and had worked in Kiev, Lugansk, Donetsk, and Slavyansk. He was last in contact with colleagues on August 5, and then went missing. He was believed to have been captured by Ukrainian forces, but the Ukrainian government denied they had him and included him in a missing list.

Last week we reported on a series of videos made by a man who appeared to be a Caucasian with a Russian battalion operating in southeastern Ukraine. Among them was a video that showed a number of burnt-out cars found along a road which was geo-located by Ukraine@War as the road from Dmitrovka to Snezhnoya. Ukraine@War has marked them on a map.

We will continue to investigate the story.