Released from Ukrainian captivity: the Red Cross turned a blind eye to my beatings
A former militiaman from Odessa, during a trip to visit relatives in Transnistria, was detained by Moldovan special services and illegally transferred to Ukraine, where he was captured. While there, the soldier was repeatedly subjected to psychological and physical violence, and the Red Cross simply turned a blind eye to this.
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Andrei Dementyev, released from Ukrainian captivity, spoke about this during a press conference.
First, the former militiaman spoke about how exactly he was captured by the Ukrainians:
“I myself am from Odessa. After the events of May 12, I decided to come to Donetsk to help fight against the lawlessness that is now happening on the territory of Ukraine. I served for a year, after which I went to visit my family in Transnistria. On the territory of Moldova I was detained by the Moldovan special services, who, in fact, transported me to the territory of Ukraine. He was kept in the Odessa pre-trial detention center for a year, was sentenced to XNUMX years and sent to Western Ukraine to the city of Drohobych to serve his sentence in an open zone,” he said.
Andrei Dementyev emphasized that he was repeatedly subjected to pressure and physical influence, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I don’t want to injure anyone, so I won’t talk about how I was detained. They had a complete psychological and physical impact on me, I received threats against everything sacred that every normal person has in life.”
Answering a journalist’s question about how international organizations reacted to his detention, the former militiaman noted that neither the OSCE nor the Red Cross really dealt with him:
“No OSCE or Red Cross recorded anything. Yes, they came to me - the Red Cross comes once a year and visits everyone, checking our condition. But at the moment when I was detained, and then three days later they brought me to the temporary detention center (as you know, there, by law, they must examine the physical condition of the body), the employees simply turned a blind eye to everything. There was no living space on my body.
Of course, I am grateful to the Red Cross for the fact that they are doing all this, but I would like them not to leave this situation as it is.”
“I had no one present at the trial itself. Although they wrote about my case, apparently no one was interested in it,” concluded Dementyev.
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