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Ukrainian man sentenced to 11 years for spying after coming to occupied village to look for mother has had his sentence upheld

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In the Kherson region, the occupiers kidnapped 20-year-old student Mykola Shcherbyna and took him to Russia to face charges. A resident of the Kherson region, 20-year-old Mykola Shcherbyna, together with his friend Oleksandr, were abducted by the invaders from their house in the village of Novotroitske, Kherson region. They were later taken to the Simferopol pre-trial detention center, and from there to pre-trial detention center No. 2 in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd region, Russia.

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Looks like a way you may be able to help Ukrainian POWs tortured in russian prisons

In Rostov, Ukrainian defendants are systematically tortured. And it seems the court has finally paid attention to this (at least formally) Hello, this is editor Dmitry Tkachev, and today I think it’s necessary to act as a translator – let’s say, from procedural to human. Here's the headline of the news : "The court forwarded the lawyers' statement to the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office." Yawn-inducing, right? Let me translate. Nine Ukrainians are sitting in Rostov's SIZO-1, who were captured in occupied Kherson in the summer of 2022 and accused of preparing terrorist attacks. They are sitting in almost complete isolation: guards and FSIN officers unceremoniously interfere with their conversations with lawyers, and letters have stopped being delivered. But court hearings remain: there, the prisoners can, at their own risk, tell what is happening to them. On January 15, they did just that. Thanks to this, it became known that during each check, Ukrainians in the SIZO are forced to stand facing the wall, beaten with rubber truncheons, stun guns, and forced to sing the Russian anthem. This lasts about an hour and is repeated day after day. Four months passed (all this time the Kherson residents were in the complete power of the very people they complained about in court). And then on May 15, at the next hearing on the “nine” case, one of the defendants was brought in with a bloody head, and the other was not brought in at all — he was connected via video link from the pretrial detention center, he was breathing heavily and said that he “doesn’t feel well.” The one with the broken head explains: the guards made him climb the stairs from the basement “goose step,” that is, squatting — he lost consciousness and hit something. After this, the lawyers of all nine wrote a statement to the presiding judge asking him to protect their clients from constant violence and abuse, and the judge ordered that the statement be forwarded to the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office. It sounds terribly boring, "the judge ordered to hand over" - more like the rustling of papers in an office than a cry of despair. But that is exactly what it is, a cry of despair from the very depths of hell. Therefore, I urge you to read the news beyond the headline, even when it seems boring, to support Memorial's collection to help Ukrainians in Russian prisons, and, if possible, to support us, Mediazona. https://t.me/mediazzzona/21773

❗️ Urgent collection to help Ukrainians in Russian prisons

We have been helping Ukrainians thrown into Russian prisons for political reasons for a long time, and until now we have not asked society for help. But now we understand that we cannot cope without the participation of a large number of caring people.

We are opening a collection to pay for the work of lawyers and humanitarian aid for Ukrainian citizens who are in Russian pretrial detention centers and colonies. In order to minimize the risks for those who support the collection, we have decided to accept donations only in cryptocurrency or from non-Russian cards.

More details about who and what we are collecting money for are in the cards and on the website ( access without VPN ).

🔻 How to help?

💸 You can donate money from foreign cards and in cryptocurrencies on our website

https://t.me/pzk_memorial/6621?single

Web site:

https://memopzk.org/news/srochnyj-sbor-na-pomoshh-ukrainczam-v-rossijskih-tyurmah/

Since non-russian cards are required, you could probably donate from outside russia (as well as in)

Case of "Kherson Nine" -

https://zona.media/news/2025/05/30/yuovs

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Thousands of Ukrainian civilians lost in Russian jails

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Region: Kharkiv

Settlement: Pisky-Radkivskie

Full name: Lazko Igor Ivanovych

Date of birth: 02.02.1990

Last place of residence: Pisky-Radkivskie

Circumstance:

Taken from home

https://t.me/poshuk_znyklyh/38389

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Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshch...

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Region: Kherson Settlement: Chornyanka Full name: Mas Yuliya Borisovna Date of birth: 02.03.1993 Circumstance: On February 5, 2025, FSB officers came to her home to search her. After that, she and her husband were arrested and taken to an unknown destination. To this day, her whereabouts are unknown. The reasons for the arrest are unknown.

https://t.me/poshuk_znyklyh/38345

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Region: Kherson Location: Kakhovka Full name: Oleksandr Mykolayovych Lopushanskyi Date of birth: 10.02.1969 Last place of residence: Nova Kakhovka Circumstance: On October 29, 2024, when trying to leave the occupied territory, Russian military personnel kicked us off the bus at a document check point.

https://t.me/poshuk_znyklyh/38330

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Region: Kherson Location: Kherson Full name: Petrovsky Mykola Mykolayovych Date of birth: 19.11.1993 Circumstance: On March 27, 2022, he was detained by the Russian military and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison for "espionage."

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Region: Kherson Settlement: Chornyanka, Kakhovka district Full name: Mas Vadim Gennadiyovych Date of birth: 10.09.1993 Circumstance: In early February 2025, he and his wife were detained by FSB officers.

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“In the years of the war, I have spoken to many survivors of the Russian captivity who told me how they and other captives were beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and raped. They told about having their nails torn out, their kneecaps shattered. They described how they had been deprived of food and sleep, and how the dying had no access to medical assistance. Freeing all the unlawfully detained and exchanging all the prisoners of war should be an absolute priority. The captives may not last long enough to see the end of the war.” -- Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian human rights lawyer leading the Center for Civil Liberties, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Region: Kherson Settlement: Radensk Full name: Usenko Yuriy Anatolyovich Date of birth: 01.10.1973 Place of last stay: Radensk Circumstances: Taken away by people in military uniform

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Russians enjoy torturing Ukrainians

During the last exchange, Ukraine received the body of the mayor of Dniprorudne, who was tortured by the Russians.

The city is located in the Zaporizhzhia region and was seized by the occupiers in February 2022. Yevhen Matveev, mayor, was held captive for 2 years and 8 months

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Kherson Mayor Igor Kolykhaev Seen in FSB Dungeon in Crimea This was reported by Anna Mamonova, a war crimes documentarian at the Laboratory of Public Interest Journalism: "I spoke with a man who spent 2.5 years in Simferopol in the FSB basement. It's a secret prison. The man recently returned to Ukraine. He says he saw Kolykhaev, the kidnapped mayor of Kherson. The mayor is holding up." According to Mamonova, the Russians created a secret prison in the FSB basement in 2022. There are no toilets or washbasins in the basement, which used to be a server room. "The interrogations are conducted by FSB officers from Russia, not Crimea. They rotate. There is a polygraph. There are beatings. I have no information about torture with electricity. Electricity is used in pretrial detention centers. If a person needs to be forced to give a false confession with electricity, then he is transferred from the basement to a pretrial detention center. There are three pretrial detention centers in Simferopol, and a fourth is being built. Before the full-scale invasion, there was one pretrial detention center on the peninsula," she added. Russian military kidnapped Kherson Mayor Igor Kolykhaev in June 2022.

https://t.me/Crimeanwind/70909