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Two Crimean Tatar students disappear in the Crimea
14.10.2014
Update: There are entirely divergent reports emerging in the media, all saying that one of the young men - Belyal Bilyavov - has been found dead, but varying radically as to the cause of death. A full update will be provided as soon as possible
Civic activist abducted
13.10.2014
Vasyl Kovalenko, a civic activist who has provided refuge to over a thousand people displaced by the conflict, was taken prisoner by Kremlin-backed militants from the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic. They are now, however, denying this.
Journalist Yehor Vorobyov released
08.10.2014
Yehor Vorobyov, journalist for Espreso TV was released on Tuesday, Oct 7, after being held hostage by Russian soldiers and / or Kremlin-backed militants from the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic for 38 days
Another young Crimean Tatar man has disappeared
01.10.2014
Two days after 19-year-old Islam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islamov were abducted from Sary-Su near Belogorsk in the Crimea, another young man has gone missing
Mariupol human rights activist taken hostage
30.09.2014
Oleksandr Kudinov, a well-known human rights activist disappeared in Donetsk on Sept 22 and is assumed to have been taken prisoner by Kremlin-backed militants
Journalist Oleksandr Bilokobylsky released
29.09.2014
Kremlin-backed militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk people’s republic have released Oleksandr Bilokobylsky, a Luhansk journalist captured while trying to take food and important medicine for relatives and friends in Luhansk
Two young Crimean Tatars abducted
27.09.2014
At around 19.00 on Saturday evening uniformed men pushed two young Crimean Tatar men into a minivan and took them away. The police and FSB say that they were not involved
Dmytro Potekhin released
26.09.2014
President Poroshenko has announced that the well-known journalist, blogger and civic activist has been released after being seized by Kremlin-backed militants on Aug 7. At least 6 other journalists and civic activists are among the militants’ hostages
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy lecturer savagely beaten
25.09.2014
Vasyl Cherepanyn, head of the Visual Culture Research Centre and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy lecturer was set upon by thugs in paramilitary camouflage gear almost certainly from a far-right organization and badly injured
Concern for civic activist and journalist seized by Luhansk militants
24.09.2014
Serhiy Saladynsky, head of the Luhansk Eastern Ukraine Centre and chief editor of an Internet publication Politika 2.0 and journalist Oleksandr Bilokobylsky are believed to have been taken hostage by the so-called Luhansk people’s republic.
Attack on Crimean Tatar scholar Nadir Bekir
19.09.2014
The attack on Nadir Bekir and what was taken suggest that his assailants were no common thieves.
Journalist missing in Luhansk
18.09.2014
Nothing has been heard from journalist Oleksandr Bilokobylsky since he set off on Sept 13 from Kharkiv to take food and medicines to relatives in Luhansk
Five journalists not on the list of Kremlin-backed militants’ hostages
13.09.2014
The 409 names on the list do not include Espreo journalist Yehor Vorobyov, Dmitry Potekhin, Yury Lelyavsky or two Kharkiv journalists not seen since the end of August
Journalist covering siege of Ilovaisk taken prisoner
02.09.2014
Yehor Vorobyov, journalist from TV Espreso has been taken prisoner while covering the siege of Ilovaisk in the Donetsk oblast. Cameraman Taras Chkan and Road Control journalist Rostislav Shaposhnikov are hopefully safe
Kremlin-backed militants murder Lithuanian honorary consul
22.08.2014
Lithuania’s foreign minister has reported that Mykola Zelenets, a Ukrainian businessman and honorary Consul of Lithuania for the Luhansk oblast was abducted by the militants and murdered
Families of murdered hostages demand proper investigation
22.08.2014
The relatives of Volodymyr Rybak, Yury Popravka and Yury Diakovsky, who died of horrific injuries after being abducted by Kremlin-backed militants are critical of police inaction
Abducted street artist released briefly, then imprisoned again
20.08.2014
Donetsk artist Serhiy Zakharov, whose street installations ridiculing the Kremlin-backed militants led to his abduction was released on Aug 17, but has not returned since returning to try to get his documents back.
Journalist Dmytro Potekhin seized by militants
13.08.2014
The journalist, blogger and civic activist was taken hostage by Kremlin-backed militants in Donetsk on Aug 7
Kremlin-backed militants seize parents of a local journalist
13.08.2014
Donetsk journalist Viktoria Ishchenko reports that her parents have been seized by members of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Iryna and Valery Ishchenko are accusd of “complicity”, though complicity in what is not clear.
Kremlin-backed militants’ resort to wholesale and merciless hostage-taking
12.08.2014
Anna Mokrousova explains that if before people were seized to dig trenches for the militants or to try to get information, now they’re being taken hostage in huge numbers for possible exchange.
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