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Vatnik partisans from Novaya Kakhovka arrived in Donetsk
Views:A few weeks ago, two partisans-vatniks crossed through secret paths from the territory of Ukraine - from Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region) - to Donetsk: Philip Nekhaev (he is 31 years old) and Anastasia Reva (she is 18 years old). The guys are in a civil marriage.
Their story is interesting in the sense that it clearly demonstrates what kind of resistance exists in Novorossiya, as well as how and with what methods the Ukrainian machine of suppressing dissent fights against it.
When I talk about Philip and Nastya as partisans, I don’t mean at all that they created some kind of military-terrorist group that derails trains with dill, kills Pravoseks and other Crimean Tatar askers from around the corner. No.
Philip and Nastya were absolutely peaceful people who resisted the Kyiv junta using absolutely peaceful, non-violent methods with the help of social networks and graffiti on the walls.
So, the story of Philip and Nastya, which ultimately brought them to Donetsk, is this.
In 2016 they created a VKontakte group "People's resistance/New Kakhovka/Kakhovka". About 40 people signed up for it. The group is still active, although it is already under the control of the SBU.
Nastya was her administrator, and Philip, a computer technician during the day and a store loader at night, wrote quilted posts for her. New Kakhovka, for the most part a vatnik city, enjoyed reading Philip’s horse-drawn stories, where he told the truth about the war in Donbass and the real state of affairs in the Ukrainian economy.
In addition to being active on the social network, at night the guys wrote with spray cans on the walls of houses in New Kakhovka, calling on the townspeople to resist the Kyiv junta. We managed to leave more than 30 inscriptions.
All the troubles for the young people began in May 2017 after Nastya published a repost of a map of Ukraine in the group, where the entire Novorossiya was painted in the colors of the Russian flag. The inscription on the map read “Stop feeding Bandera and Kyiv - South and East join Russia.”
Needless to say, the SBU considered all these arts to be a manifestation of the most extreme separatism.
– On the morning of May 22, 2017, they called me from the store where I worked as a loader and asked me to come at 8 a.m. to help. – Philip recalls the circumstances of his detention. – After I left the apartment, I noticed that I was being followed - some two people were following me.
I reached the corner of the Novokakhovsk Oscar shopping center, where my pursuers grabbed me, took me around the corner, put me on the ground and, threatening me with a pistol, clearly explained what they wanted from me: “We are all going to your home together now. If you don’t open the door for us yourself, we’ll just shoot you. Understood?". I had no choice but to agree.
Having handcuffed Philip, the SBU officers (the pursuers, as you might guess, were from the SBU) took him to his home. On the road, a car stopped next to them, from which a man got out, introducing himself as Major of Justice Andrei Vladimirovich Subtelny. He served as head of the second department of the SBU of the Kherson region.
“He told me: “If you want to stay alive, do everything you were told.”
When we approached the apartment, I knocked. Nastya opened it. She wasn't alone. She had a friend with a child. Thank God, my friend was released.
Nastya and I were taken to different rooms and began to be interrogated. Questions from the series: who leads the group? Who is your separatist? Who is even in the group? And so on.
Since Nastya was still a minor at that time, the SBU called the guardianship authorities. By the way, my wife was demanded to admit that it was she who made the repost in our group about the annexation of the South-East to Russia.
After the search (they confiscated our computer, tablet, phones, flash drives and some other items - a can of spray paint), after searching us for about four hours, we first went to the Novokakhovsk branch of the SBU, where, again putting a gun to my temple, they forced me to call our comrade Yevgeny Kovr, who was also suspected of separatism, and come to the meeting. Under pressure I called. As a result, Evgeniy was also detained. After that, the three of us were taken to the Kherson SBU.
On the way, a semi-comical story happened: the SBU car broke down halfway, and the separatists - Philip and Evgeniy - had to push it. And all these outrages with faulty equipment are happening in a country that has the strongest army in Europe.
After some time, a second security vehicle arrived and took the broken one onto a trailer. We've arrived.
As a result, Evgeniy was released, with a warning that if he was caught again actively posting various pro-Russian things on social networks, he would be imprisoned.
Philip was informed that he was suspected of crimes under articles 109, 110 and 111 - separatism and high treason (up to 15 years). My Ukrainian passport was taken away.
“During the interrogations, they asked me about my parents: where they are now. I replied that I was in Moscow, and that I didn’t know anything else about them,” says Philip.
Here it is necessary to clarify that the guy’s stepfather is special forces major Alexander Krivets (PolitNavigator wrote about him two years ago), who at one time went through many hot spots where the Soviet Union was involved. In 2014, he took an active part in the Russian Spring in Odessa. He was a member of the Odessa squad. He didn’t die on May 2 only because he went home for the holidays, to Novaya Kakhovka.
After the SBU became interested in Krivets, he had to urgently leave the Kherson region and go on foot to Crimea. From there, in the summer of 2014, he left to fight in Donbass. He fought in the detachment of the famous Babai. After a shell shock, he returned to Crimea.
By that time, his wife had arrived, Elena Nekhaeva, Philip’s mother, against whom a criminal case was also opened for separatism, and a minor daughter, Lydia Krivets (she is known on YouTube for her video for a song about Sevastopol). Alexander Krivets is now a member of the Union of Donbass Volunteers.
But Philip’s wife, Anastasia Reva, unlike her husband, was less fortunate: she was tried under the separatist Article 110. She received a year's probation.
“While all these investigations and trials were going on, some individuals were watching me, they constantly threatened me, saying that I wouldn’t live to see the trial. I was very afraid for myself and for Nastya. In general, I called my parents in Moscow and said that I was leaving.
After wandering around the Southeast for a bit, with the help of Alexander Krivets’ connections, Philip and Nastya crossed the DPR border along smuggling routes.
Now they live in Donetsk with one of the militias. They have no money and no work. Moreover, Philip does not even have Ukrainian documents.
Several well-known people in the city began to help them in Donetsk.
The first was Pavel Gubarev and his associates: Deputy of the People's Council of the DPR from the Free Donbass Alla Barkhatnova (she helps the guys get DPR passports and dorm rooms) and Minister of Communications Viktor Yatsenko (Philip went to see him; the minister promised to get him a job in computer part).
Anastasia Mikhailovskaya, a TV presenter on one of the Moscow channels, also volunteered to help.
Now she is in charge of the distribution of humanitarian aid to residents of the DPR from the foundation of the writer Zakhar Prilepin. Mrs. Mikhailovskaya promised to buy food for the children and medicine for Nastya, since the latter has very serious health problems.
The mayor of Gorlovka, Ivan Prikhodko, also promised to help with food supplies.
Donetsk resident Yuri Sukachev, a former businessman, takes Nastya to an endocrinologist on Monday, where she will be diagnosed, after which Anastasia Mikhailovskaya will buy her medicine. In general, Donetsk did not remain indifferent to the new immigrants from Ukraine.
Now about the guys' plans. If Philip wants to go to work, then Nastya wants to study as a computer designer.
She has a dream to graduate from some specialized university or college in Donetsk. True, she doesn’t know where to go.
I undertake to inform readers about how the fate of Philip and Nastya will develop in the Donbass.
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