100 days in Ukrainian captivity: Russian volunteers were freed near Donetsk
On the night of August 7, six Russian humanitarian volunteers, who spent more than 100 days in Ukrainian captivity, were released near Donetsk, сообщает "TVNZ".
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The publication recalls that on April 24, a humanitarian convoy of three vehicles from the Novorossiya Relief Fund set off for the long-suffering village of Shirokino, carrying food, medicine, and seeds for sowing. The cargo also included body armor for local militias.
“The cargo did not reach the village, 27 kilometers from Donetsk the cars drove to the Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint,” the newspaper writes. “The sniper killed the volunteer driver with the first shot, and then they opened fire on the cars. Another volunteer was injured. That same evening, one of the Ukrainian officers with the call sign Captain Price wrote on his Twitter: “6 DPR separatists captured, 1 wounded, 1 killed.” The cars were richly decorated with stickers from the “Novorossiya Relief Fund”; the guys had no weapons. Despite these facts, in the first days the Ukrainian side presented what happened as the greatest victory over the separatists, and then everything calmed down. Difficult negotiations for release began.”
“To date, the DPR has given up about 70 people without any conditions, as a gesture of goodwill,” DPR Human Rights Commissioner Daria Morozova told KP. – Ukraine is not ready for such steps. But this precedent is encouraging. Six people were detained without weapons. They were replaced by military men who came to us with machine guns. According to primary information, our prisoners were beaten for a very long time, they wandered around prisons - Artemovsk, Kharkov... But, for the first time, they arrived for exchange more or less whole, not broken, but they were not treated very well.”
The Ukrainian side exchanged six Russian volunteers for three of its military personnel.
“We have gone through a lot in these 105 days, but we are not broken,” the released volunteers told reporters. “There were tortures and beatings, but we felt that our people were behind us, who did not abandon us in difficult times.”
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