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South American journalists have revealed how Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona helped get them out of trouble with authorities in Ukraine. 

The journalists are in besieged Ukraine reporting on the conflict there after Russia's invasion. 

And according to Argentine TV channel Telefe, they were stopped at a checkpoint, taken to the police station and questioned.

At that point Argentine football legends Messi and Maradona got them out of trouble.

Chilean journalist Daniel Matamala said on his Instagram story: 'Today, at one of the road checkpoints, the police seized our documents, cameras, telephones, and escorted us to the police station. 

'The first interrogations were tense: it is a country at war and spies or saboteurs are suspected.