Phones, photo cameras and tablets of journalists from Ukraine, Norway and Poland taken from them near Crimean commissariat у in Simferopol, were given to the Federal Security Service of Russia. The journalists were told about it by representatives of the self-proclaimed Crimean Army. They were told all their equipment was in Moscow.

On March 14, in Simferopol near the military commissariat unidentified masked men took away the equipment from journalists. The explanation for it was the request not to film. Then they were told they would get their equipment back after it was checked.