EUROLEADER and EAST UKRAINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS CENTRE
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TOPIC OF THE ISSUE WE ARE LOOKING FOR MISSING PEOPLE IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE TOGETHER. “Slovyansk Human Rights Resource Centre” which works under the project “Promotion of Human Rights in Eastern Ukraine”, which is carried out by SO “Euroleader” supported by NED and it helps to find the missing people, both military men and civilians. The letters - requests about missing military men and civilians’ location were sent in May of 2015 to such instances as MIA of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Center of the prisoners’ discharge under the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. However, only the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk Region and the Authority of Police Intelligence answered our letters and provided the direct assistance, and as it turned out, this request was planned by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for implementation. The answer was not so comforting, some of the wanted were dead and overall statistics showed that the average age of these men was about 22 years. So we can say about the military men who are wanted now. Unfortunately, we don’t know about their fate, but there is hope that they are alive. There is also positive results in our work. Many of the missing men are no longer wanted and now they are at home with their family and friends, so the information about their disappearance is out of date. Slovyansk Center is satisfied that not only families worry about the missing relatives but also other organizations take part directly in the investigation. Unfortunately, information about some persons is absent at all. There are no news about these guys in any authority of national importance. But “Slovyansk Human Rights Resource Centre” will continue to participate in the search for missing and track any information about their fate. Also you may have a look on the site of SO “Euroleader” www.euroleader.in.ua at the list of missing, where Andrei Drevytskyi and Andrei Kyselyov are engaged in the missing search. If you have a similar situation, or you have other issues that need the lawyers’ intervention and you are in need of providing qualified legal assistance in connection with the political situation in our country, we propose you to apply to “Slovyansk Human Rights Resource Centre” : Slovyansk townst, Karl Marx street, new building №22, Office 37. Hot Line: +380669252244, +380934651705 www.euroleader.in.ua
IN TODAY’S ISSUE:
The accusation is intensified for Savchenko.
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Russian occupants cut alive people and scattered salt on their body. Three stories about the war.
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Media named the russian generals who are commanders of the gunmen in the Donbas
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EUROLEADER 2014 THE ACCUSATION IS INTENSIFIED FOR SAVCHENKO.
Ukrainian is accused of Russian journalists’ direct murder. The Investigative Committee of Russia intensified the accusations of Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. She is accused of the murder of two Russian journalists in Donbas. Before she was accused of complicity in crime. “The investigation body has changed the conception,” - said Savchenko’s lawyer Illya Novikov. Also he added that the prosecution plot has not been changed – Savchenko’s criminal actions remained the same. Savchenko is still accused of murder attempt in generally dangerous way and illegal crossing of border of RF. The investigation has been completed, and the criminal case against Savchenko sent for indictment. After that the case will be taken to the court, said Vladimir Markin who is the official representative of the Investigative Committee. According to authorities, in June of 2014 in Luhansk region during the military operations Savchenko learned about the location of the coordinates of Russian journalists and other citizens and gave them to Ukrainian soldiers. The artillery fire was carried out according these coordinates, and it was the cause of death of such journalists as Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshyn, said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Savchenko was detained when she supposedly on her free will crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border without documents.
RUSSIAN OCCUPANTS CUT ALIVE PEOPLE AND SCATTERED SALT ON THEIR BODY. THREE STORIES ABOUT THE WAR. 2 FOTO. 18 + The first story. “They cut alive people and scattered salt on their body” Sasha is 28. His body is in large scars - long horizontal and vertical stripes on the side and back and one - in front of his body, along all breasts. It’s an evidence of his torture in the basement of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (the hand does not rise to right this absurd name with a capital letter). Alexander says just about what happened to him: - Remember deneerivtsi shot down two Ukrainian planes near Donetsk? One pilot was found, and a detachment of 20 people was sent to his searching. I was among the searchers. We drove on a back square. No one was found and we were ordered to stay in the place overnight. We executed the order. After a few minutes two units of military hardware of our enemy approached the place of our distribution. There was no any fight, because we have no equivalent weapon to resist the attacking side. How could we fight with a gun against an armor? They began shooting down, after which eleven of my friends were killed, five (including me) were wounded and were taken prisoner, and only four of us returned in our military unit. Deneerivtsi took our commander who was wounded in the stomach. He is considered a missing person till today. I was wounded by shell splinters in three places. I crawled back to the wall and thought they wouldn’t find me. But found. Later. So I was taken prisoner. www.euroleader.in.ua
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EUROLEADER 2014 RUSSIAN OCCUPANTS CUT ALIVE PEOPLE AND SCATTERED SALT ON THEIR BODY. THREE STORIES ABOUT THE WAR. 2 FOTO.18 +
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Russian intelligence agents interrogated me and a Chechen. I grew a beard, I was very dark and they thought I was an Arab. They asked whether the Americans and the Poles are at war with us... They paid no attention to my injuries. Hung. Cut. They chopped my finger with the knife. They scattered salt on my wounds. After the interrogation I was taken to the pre-trial prison to Krasnodon. Before I had been in the pre-trial prison in Izvarino. There they sewed my fingers - one on the hand and the other on the foot. It was torn off when we were covered with “Grad”. They set my bones without anesthesia. The guardian didn’t allow to give an pain reliever injection. They didn’t allow to sew my cuts. They skinned over. I spent 34 days as a prisoner. I was exchanged for their prisoners. The second story. “My wife released me” Alyosha is 26. Military Personnel. He served in the special forces. In was taken a prisoner in February 16 in 2015 near Debaltseve. His armoured personnel carrier accompanied a column of ammunition. When leaving the city, it caught in an ambush. Oleksiy believes that the Colonel Father the Commander of 128 Brigade was guilty in APC destruction and death of his fellow combats, who ordered to go through the city, although their armored personnel carrier took out wounded and killed men through another way. When we changed our route we immediately were taken prisoners. The commander was killed in battle, APC broke down. We left him and decided to go on foot. Three of thirteen were killed, two seriously wounded and eight were taken prisoners. On the first day the prisoners were beaten. Then they were beaten because of drunk spirit: the drunk enter and beats the prisoners. The guys from Ilovaisky boiler were beaten 3-4 times a day. And one day Vasyl Kozak was brought to our cell. He was very taunted. The regular Russian troops guarded us, which consist mainly of the Buryat and the Chechens. Half of the week we were taken for questioning. When they stopped the questioning, we were sent to work. This was previously mentioned Donetsk airport and their morgues where we loaded and unloaded the dead “miners”. He was the first in the list on the exchange. I did not pay any money. Although family pay for the prisoners, they said. Good business for somebody. He came home ill and spent two weeks in hospital in Vinnytsia, then he went home.
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EUROLEADER 2014 RUSSIAN OCCUPANTS CUT ALIVE PEOPLE AND SCATTERED SALT ON THEIR BODY. THREE STORIES ABOUT THE WAR. 2 FOTO.18 +
“My helmet saved me” Vadim is 29 years. He is a teacher of mathematics, but went to the Ukrainian army by the contract. Therefore he considers himself a career military. His way began at the Savur-grave last August. He broke out the encirclement near Izvarino. Then he got to the Donetsk airport. But he hadn’t enough time to fight because on the third day he was wounded: - My helmet saved me. I got under mortar attack. Officer Genya Podolyanchuk carried him from the battlefield. Later, when Vadim were treated, Eugene died. Vadim spent 21 days in hospital. First he got to Kramatorsk. From there he got to Kharkiv by plan. And to Mukachevo. - I’m not a hero - he said. – the participant ATO. I have no awards. The guys think they did a secondary matter. But we all know that they are the real heroes.
MEDIA NAMED THE RUSSIAN GENERALS WHO ARE COMMANDERS OF THE GUNMEN IN THE DONBAS The media published the names of five Russian generals who play a key role in organizing separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. There is a document that is the conclusion of Ukrainian Security Service directed to the White House, State Department and US intelligence - 16 June. It is noted that five Russian generals and colonels play a key role in the occupation of the territories of Ukraine. “US officials confirmed the receipt of the document and said that the information contained in it, generally corresponds to the US for Russian intelligence operations in Ukraine. For more than a year, officials from the US and NATO forces have accused Russian special forces and military intelligence for assisting separatists in Ukraine.“ According to the Security Service of Ukraine, Major General Oleg Mussovych Tsekov, commander of the 200 th separate motorized Pechenizka brigade, also known as Oleg Turnov, commander of the Second Brigade “people’s police LPR” was involved the situation in Donbass. Another soldier, that affects the situation in the Donbas is Major General Valeriy Solodchuk, who is called the commander of the first army forces “Novorosiya” in Donetsk. Also stated that Major General Sergey Kuzovlyev commands the Russian regular forces of special operations in the region of Luhansk. Major General Alexei Volodymyrovych Zavyzyon is the coordinator of Russian regular forces of special operations in Donetsk region. Also it was identified Major General Roman Oleksandrovych Shadrin and Colonel Anatoly Konstyantynovych Barankevych is a former defense minister of South Osetia, and now he is an advisor of the combat readiness in the “LPR”.
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