A Crimean man who came to Ukraine to bury his mother was sentenced to eight years
Maidan, the annexation of Crimea and the civil war that followed were the watershed that forces the citizens of the once united country to make a final choice.
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The lieutenant colonel of the medical service, who in 2014 served as deputy head of the Sudak sanatorium for military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whether he wanted it or not, fell into the millstone of history. After the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the “secret” from Kiev ceased to work, although mobile communications and communications via the Internet worked properly and through them a directive was transmitted, according to which military personnel were obliged to either find employment in “mainland Ukraine” or resign from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The lieutenant colonel’s mother was in “mainland Ukraine,” and his apartment and family were in Crimea. At first, he tried to return to his mother and put his family on the list of those who were supposed to move to Kyiv. But the wife, of course, objected. Then he went to Kyiv to resign from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fact is that all senior officers kept their personal files in Kyiv. And without the original documents stored there, there was no way to get a new job.
The lieutenant colonel experienced the absurdity of a bureaucratic phantasmagoria in which no one understands what is happening and why. Through some underhanded means, he managed to get the original documents from his personal file. Fully confident that he was no longer an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he returned to Crimea to his family and got a job as an ordinary doctor. However, when the former lieutenant colonel had to visit Ukraine in 2016 because of his mother’s funeral, he was immediately arrested and accused of treason.
The trial that unfolded in this case was worthy of Kafka's pen. Completely groundlessly, the man was accused of not only serving the “occupiers of Crimea,” but also running the “Sudak” sanatorium, which was reorganized by the Russian authorities into a health and sports facility for Russian soldiers, and, in addition, he himself brought “polite people” to the sanatorium and actively participated in its armed takeover.
Not a single document indicating the lieutenant colonel’s visit to Kyiv has simply survived. The witnesses gave contradictory testimony: not a single official saw the lieutenant colonel, but other colleagues saw and even talked to the lieutenant colonel.
In conce, condemned without the fault of the guilty lieutenant colonel to eight years in prison.
The daughter of a man accused of high treason, as it turned out, also had to make difficult choices. After all, even before the Crimean Spring, she entered the Crimean medical university. But after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, she transferred to Kyiv.
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