The American journalist detained by pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine is free.<br /> <br />The Vice News reporter, Simon Ostrovosky, described his ordeal to the CBC.<br /> <br />SOUNDBITE (English) FREED VICE REPORTER, SIMON OSTROVSKY, SAYING:<br /> <br />"Spent four days in a basement with three or four other guys. They kept bringing in new people from the street - drunks...people who were high, and then activists and people from other parts of Ukraine. Some people would be held for like a day. Some people would be held for longer. There was a local city councilman who was being held down there. I couldn't figure out who the hell these people were except that they were Christian radicals."<br /> <br />Ostrovsky had been reporting on the crisis in Ukraine for several weeks when he was stopped at a checkpoint in Sloviansk and accused of being a "lying journalist."<br /> <br />SOUNDBITE (English) FREED VICE REPORTER, SIMON OSTROVSKY, SAYING:<br /> <br />"They had a photograph of me at a checkpoint that's just down the
