They took his phones and threatened to kill him. Russian troops abducted Mykyta Buzinov in the Chernihiv region
Source: MIPL
Vladimir Buzinov’s family lived in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske near Chernihiv. On March 4, Russian troops occupied the village. They began searching homes and detaining people. They also came to the Buzinov family’s home.
“While they were checking our documents and cell phones, shelling began. We ran to the shelter, and Russian soldiers—perhaps 15 of them—ran in there too. They took our phones. They said that the Ukrainian army was shelling the village, that the Ukrainian army had raped children in our village, and so on. That’s how they put psychological pressure on us,” Volodymyr said during a live broadcast organized by the International Institute for Human Rights (IIHR) in collaboration with independent journalist Olga Tokariuk on Twitter Spaces.
After the shelling ended, Russian soldiers took Volodymyr, his brother Mykyta, and his mother in for questioning. The detainees were told they were suspected of collaborating with the Ukrainian military, allegedly by sending certain information to the soldiers. In particular, they showed screenshots of geolocation data which, according to Volodymyr, were not on the family’s phones.
“Of course, they were fake; we didn’t send any data to our army. After that, they started shouting loudly. It was very scary. They forced my brother to his knees facing one way and me the other. They started firing and threatening to kill us. My mother was watching all of this at the time. I think they wanted us to admit that we were helping our army,” Volodymyr recalls of the interrogation.
After that, the Russian soldiers took Mykyta away and drove him off in an unknown direction.
Vladimir’s brother worked as a taxi driver. “He’s never fired a gun,” says the missing man’s brother. He hopes that Mykyta is alive and will be released from captivity unharmed:
“We know he’s not on the list of those killed in the Chernihiv region. He’s being held hostage, but we don’t know where. Our family has high hopes that he’s alive and will return to us.”
Currently, there are at least 30 people known to have been abducted in the Kyiv region, and about a hundred more active community members are being held in the newly occupied territories of eastern and southern Ukraine.
You can listen to Volodymyr Buzinov’s story on Twitter Spaces, hosted by independent journalist Olga Tokariuk.
Vladimir Buzinov’s family lived in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske near Chernihiv. On March 4, Russian troops occupied the village. They began searching homes and detaining people. They also came to the Buzinov family’s home.
“While they were checking our documents and cell phones, shelling began. We ran to the shelter, and Russian soldiers—perhaps 15 of them—ran in there too. They took our phones. They said that the Ukrainian army was shelling the village, that the Ukrainian army had raped children in our village, and so on. That’s how they put psychological pressure on us,” Volodymyr said during a live broadcast organized by the International Institute for Human Rights (IIHR) in collaboration with independent journalist Olga Tokariuk on Twitter Spaces.
After the shelling ended, Russian soldiers took Volodymyr, his brother Mykyta, and his mother in for questioning. The detainees were told they were suspected of collaborating with the Ukrainian military, allegedly by sending certain information to the soldiers. In particular, they showed screenshots of geolocation data which, according to Volodymyr, were not on the family’s phones.
“Of course, they were fake; we didn’t send any data to our army. After that, they started shouting loudly. It was very scary. They forced my brother to his knees facing one way and me the other. They started firing and threatening to kill us. My mother was watching all of this at the time. I think they wanted us to admit that we were helping our army,” Volodymyr recalls of the interrogation.
After that, the Russian soldiers took Mykyta away and drove him off in an unknown direction.
Vladimir’s brother worked as a taxi driver. “He’s never fired a gun,” says the missing man’s brother. He hopes that Mykyta is alive and will be released from captivity unharmed:
“We know he’s not on the list of those killed in the Chernihiv region. He’s being held hostage, but we don’t know where. Our family has high hopes that he’s alive and will return to us.”
Currently, there are at least 30 people known to have been abducted in the Kyiv region, and about a hundred more active community members are being held in the newly occupied territories of eastern and southern Ukraine.
You can listen to Volodymyr Buzinov’s story on Twitter Spaces, hosted by independent journalist Olga Tokariuk.
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