Polish border guards brought to death a Ukrainian scientist who was trying to get into Poland
The details of the death at the Ukrainian-Polish checkpoint “Shegini” of one of the best Ukrainian mathematicians, 70-year-old Yuri Zelinsky, head of the department of complex analysis and potential theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, have become known.
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As he told a Kyiv newspaper "Vesti" colleague of the deceased Yuri Churachenko, the scientist was not going for treatment, as previously reported, but to an international mathematical meeting with his colleagues in Poland, and added that he was shocked by how the Polish border guards treated Zelinsky.
Churachenko said that Zelinsky had a letter with him, signed by the leaders, rectors, and director of the Institute of Mathematics, in which they asked for assistance in unhindered passage across the border.
“And this happened on Friday - it was hot, there were queues, and the man was almost 70 years old. He approached the girl; he was not on the territory of Ukraine, but not yet on the Polish side. He showed the letter and spoke Polish, which he knows very well. The girl said that this did not concern her. Age and a not very healthy heart played a role,” said a colleague of the deceased scientist.
“Also, according to relatives, after the incident, the Poles offered to move Yuri Borisovich to the territory of their country. They explained that the ambulance would arrive there faster. “You would have received the body in 7-10 days, but the Poles would have taken several thousand euros from you to speculate on this death,” said the mathematician’s friends.
The State Border Service says that they are not doctors, so they do not know about the prices for the provision of medical services in the neighboring state. “We cannot comment on the actions of our Polish colleagues,” the speaker of the State Border Service Oleg Slobodyan told Vesti,” the publication notes.
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