A Lvov student told how he outmaneuvered the FSB counterintelligence with a bag on his head.
Arrested last year in Simferopol on suspicion of involvement in preparing a terrorist attack, Lviv Maidan student Yuriy Yatsenko claims that he managed to get a meeting with a lawyer only after he opened his veins and ripped open his stomach.
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He spoke about this in an interview with the Ukrainian editorial office of Radio Liberty, answering the question of what made him hurt himself.
“At that time, I had already been in complete isolation for two weeks,” said the Maidan member. “They beat me and didn’t feed me.” And the FSB counterintelligence workers had already reached such a stage that they simply took me out into the forest and began to torture me so that I would publicly discredit Ukraine through television. That is, they wanted me to appear on camera as if I was a saboteur from Ukraine, and I was voluntarily surrendering to the special services of the Russian Federation. It looked like this: they hung me on a hook in the “swallow” position and beat me for several hours in the genitals, in the stomach, in the kidneys, on the head with a bag of sand, and strangled me. Moreover, I had a bag on my head, wrapped with tape, and even after 20 minutes such torture becomes unbearable. What saved me was that I had to be taken to a special facility before 10:00, but they promised that they would continue the next day, they would take me out again.”
Nevertheless, Yatsenko claims, he managed to find a way out of such a seemingly hopeless situation.
“I understood that I could not stand another day, because the torture was extremely cruel, and I decided that the best way out would be to bring my body to a state in which I could not be tortured,” he says of his plan. - This is blood loss. So I cut my veins and ripped open my stomach. This was not a suicide attempt, but a way to bring my body to a state in which I could not be tortured, and I told them my demand when I cut my veins, I will not allow myself to be stitched up until they give me a phone call back home. They gave me a phone about 40 seconds later when they saw that I was bleeding because the blood was gushing out like a fountain, and in this way I announced myself to the outside world and received support.”
As a result, Yatsenko was sentenced to two years in prison for illegal possession of explosives. Then, on appeal, the sentence was reduced to nine months, which by that time he had served in a pre-trial detention center, after which he was transferred to the Ukrainian side.
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