Channel Nine journalist Damian Ryan threatened with machine gun at MH17 site

By Patrick Hatch
Updated August 1 2014 - 12:18pm, first published 11:36am
The soldier who held Ryan at gunpoint. Photo: Channel Nine screengrab
The soldier who held Ryan at gunpoint. Photo: Channel Nine screengrab

An Australian journalist had a machinegun pointed at his head during a terrifying run-in with a pro-Russian rebel near the crash site of flight MH17 overnight.