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Q: BEIRUT, March 11 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian journalist Ankhar Kochneva, abducted by Syrian militants in October and held for a $50 million ransom, has escaped and is now safe, she told RIA Novosti by telephone on Monday. 
  
 “I was a captive of the Free Syrian Army military council,” she said. 
  
 “At about 6 a.m. this morning I ran away from a Homs suburb. I was held in al-Bueida, a south Homs suburb; there is a lake there and this morning I was carried across that lake.” 
  
 “I walked and walked, and the first person I met was the one I needed,” she said. 
  
 Kochneva’s abductors mistreated her, she said. 
  
 “It was bad. Their [the abductors’] living conditions are poor and my conditions were even worse,” the journalist said. “I will now have to undergo medical treatment for a long time and at great cost.” 
  
 “I took a terrible risk, as I had to walk across an area leading on to minefields,” she said, adding that she was now being protected and “en route to Damascus.” 
  
 News of her escape was broken by her ex-husband Dmitry Petrov, after which a message appeared on Kochneva’s LiveJournal page, saying: “Didn’t expect [me]? Your Alice has returned from behind the looking glass. Details to come later.” 
  
 Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that Kochneva escaped her captors. 
  
 “We are expecting her to arrive at the Ukrainian Embassy in Syria tomorrow, on Tuesday," a ministry source told RIA Novosti by telephone. 
  
 In mid-January, Petrov said her kidnappers had reduced the ransom for Kochneva from $50 million to $20 million. 
  
 Kochneva, known as an expert on Syrian affairs, has been in Syria since the start of the conflict. An outspoken supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, she was freelancing for several Russian media outlets, including the NTV, RenTV and RT channels and the Utro.Ru news portal. 
  
 After she was kidnapped in October, she appeared in a video posted on YouTube in which she "confessed" to working for Russian intelligence. Her captors claim Kochneva was armed and had acted as an interpreter for Russian officers. 
  
 Updated with Kochneva's quotes throughout the text ||||| Story highlights Report: Syrian rebels demanded a $50 million ransom for Ankhar Kochneva's release 
  
 "I thought they would have killed me eventually," Kochneva says 
  
 The reporter defends Bashar al-Assad regime's war against the rebels 
  
 In separate matter, U.N. commission is investigating 20 massacres in Syria 
  
 A Ukrainian journalist taken hostage by a faction of Syrian rebels in October escaped from her captors Monday, according to a Russian media report. 
  
 The rebels had demanded a $50 million ransom from the Ukrainian government for Ankhar Kochneva's release, the Russian state-run RIA Novosti reported. 
  
 "I thought they would have killed me eventually and would say that it was the army who did it," Kochneva told Russian radio website BFM.ru on Monday. "So I made a decision to escape. I simply came to the street and (left) and maybe in 15 kilometers I met normal people who helped me to get to the army's side." 
  
 Her ordeal as a captive took a toll on her health, Kochneva said. "I lost about 30 kilograms," or 66 pounds. "My health condition is very bad because they didn't treat me at all. I spent the whole winter in a room with a broken window. When the snow fell it was in the room, too, and on the ceiling. It's a miracle that I didn't become seriously sick." 
  
 She walked around minefields to escape, she told RIA Novosti. 
  
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 Kochneva, who specializes in tourism writing and not war reporting, told BFM.ru that she planned to remain in Syria, saying it is "like a friend who got in trouble. You need to leave everything and help your friend to outlast this trouble and emerge from it." 
  
 She defended Bashar al-Assad regime's war against the Syrian rebels. 
  
 "Everyone shouts that Syria is doing something wrong, but I'm sorry, what should it do?" she said. "What would, for example, Germany do if someone would destroy its railway, kidnap its people and ask money for them, kill them? What would they do? None of the countries were in Syria's shoes. The world has gone blind. People need to hear about what's going on here. I will definitely let people know what is really happening here." 
  
 The opposition activist organization Local Coordination Committees of Syria said 84 people were killed in war-related violence across Syria on Monday, including 18 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 31 in Aleppo. CNN cannot independently verify those figures. 
  
 A U.N. commission is investigating 20 massacres in Syria, its chairman, Paulo Pinheiro, told reporters Monday. 
  
 The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations, issued a report Monday saying the "main cause of civilian casualties, mass displacement and destruction is the reckless manner in which parties to the conflict conduct hostilities." 
  
 "In a disturbing and dangerous trend, mass killings allegedly perpetrated by Popular Committees have at times taken on sectarian overtones," the report said. "Moreover, the commission has received consistent testimonies of persons who alleged having been harassed and at times arbitrarily arrested by members of these committees because they originated from regions perceived as being 'supportive of the revolution,' " the report said. 
  
 Syrian government forces "have targeted civilians and have conducted indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks," Pinheiro said. "Although we have some evidence that the situation amongst anti-government armed groups is improving, they also do not take the necessary precautions, particularly when detonating bombs where high numbers of civilian casualties are likely to result." |||||
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A Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria on Oct. 9, reportedly by rebels, managed to escape yesterday, she tells RIA Novosti. "I took a terrible risk, as I had to walk across an area leading on to minefields," Ankhar Kochneva says. "I walked and walked, and the first person I met was the one I needed. I met normal people who helped me to get to the army's side." She says she was held by the Free Syrian Army for a $50 million ransom. "I thought they would have killed me eventually and would say that it was the army who did it," she notes, per CNN. "So I made a decision to escape." The kidnappers' "living conditions are poor and my conditions were even worse," she recounts, adding that she expects to undergo lengthy medical treatment as a result of her captivity. She describes losing 66 pounds and being kept in a room with a broken window all winter. Kochneva voiced support for the regime against the rebels, CNN notes. "Everyone shouts that Syria is doing something wrong, but I'm sorry, what should it do? What would, for example, Germany do if someone would destroy its railway, kidnap its people, and ask money for them, kill them? ... The world has gone blind."