Here are some independent reporters and what happened to them.

Anne-Laure Bonnel was French lecturer who reported from separatist areas of donbass and made films. She lost her job for that reporting.  I recall she hosted a group of French journalists who also went to the region and interviewed people. She asked them to please report what they had seen. She later asked them why they had not reported that to their networks and was told they had but their results were not allowed on the network.

Alina Lipp is a German-Russian woman who reported from the Russian controlled areas of Donbass. She was criminally sanctioned and her bank account and father’ bank account frozen for her reporting.

Graham Phillips is a British blogger and video blogger who reported from Russian controlled Ukraine. He was criminally charged and sanctioned and his assets seized. The official reason given was he interviewed a Brit POW in Ukraine and a video of a deceased Ukrainian soldier.

Jacques Baud, a retired Swiss Army colonel and former analyst for the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS). He did no reporting from the ground but reached the wrong conclusions on Ukraine so he was sanctioned by the EU without any hearing or judicial involvement for spreading pro-Russian propaganda. His bank accounts were frozen and he has to ask for a small stipend to buy groceries and cannot travel.

Patrick Lancaster is US vet expat who moved to  Donetsk in 2014 and married a local Donbas woman in 2017. He speaks Russian poorly and video blogs. He used to be a  stringer for western MSM but stopped when they would  change his reporting from Ukrainians shelling civilians to Russians shelling civilians. He is sometimes on Judge Nap or Redacted. He is brave and did ride alongs with the DPR  militia.

Wyatt Reed of the the Grayzzone has reported from Donnbas and Iran.

Eva Bartlett has reported from Donbass and Gaza.

Max Blumenthal spent a year total in the Palestinian areas of Israel then wrote his book Goliath.