On 4 October, Oleksandr Mazur, a cameraman for Skhemy, a joint investigative project by RFE/RL and UA: Pershy television, and his colleague were attacked by a security guard of Ukreximbank while interviewing the bank’s CEO. The security guard seized cameras and memory cards of the reporters. The journalists were allowed to leave the office after the interview was apparently deleted from their memory cards. But technicians managed to retrieve video showing the entire confrontation. The journalsits were investigating Ukreximbank’s loan of $60 million to companies owned by a businessman with interests in the conflict zone.