The wife of Andrey Kosyak, a representative of the LPR in the JCCC, detained by the Ukrainian security forces, Tatyana Varaksina, believes that the Kiev side crossed the line of the law by kidnapping her husband.
“They have committed a criminal offense. They had no right to do this, ”said Tatiana Varaksina.
The girl also criticized the Kiev media, which praise the security forces who seized Andrei Kosyak.
“With ten men with machine guns, it is very easy to take an unarmed person. I believe that no courage is needed for this, ”she stressed.
Tatyana Varaksina added that the whole family of Andrei Kosyak hopes that he will soon return home.
On October 13, Russia’s plenipotentiary representative in the contact group, Boris Gryzlov, said that the LPR observer was forcibly captured by armed Ukrainian soldiers within the disengagement area in Zolote at the time of the repair of the highway in Luhansk, previously agreed with the Ukrainian side. The representatives of Donbass demanded from the Ukrainian side the immediate release of the observer.
On October 17, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported that it was not an eyewitness to the capture of the LPR observer by the Ukrainian military
A day later, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the interrogation of the detainee. According to the ministry, the observer was captured when he allegedly carried out reconnaissance around the positions left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Also on October 14, the People’s Police of the LPR indicated that the SBU was using torture and using psychotropic drugs to force the captured republic’s representative to give false testimony. The police also noted the inaction of the OSCE.
On October 19, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow regards the actions of the Ukrainian side as treacherous and provocative, undermining the process of peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass and running counter to Ukraine’s obligations under the bilateral Consular Convention with Russia.
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