Anastasia Hlukhovska, a journalist with RIA Melitopol (now RIA Pivden) has been imprisoned in a pre-trial detention centre (PTDC) in Kizel (Perm Krai, Russia) for two years now. She sews bedsheets and other goods for the prison, Anastasia’s sister Diana Fomenko told RIA Pivden.
Fomenko said that the news about Anastasia’s situation surfaced during a recent prisoner swap: Ukrainian intelligence officers spoke to one of the released men, who had been to the cell where Anastasia is detained.
According to RIA Pivden, the journalist’s cell measures 4 by 5 metres.
“There’s a toilet, even hygiene goods and fiction to read. They keep her in the cell constantly, sewing bedsheets and other items for the PTDC,” Diana Fomenko said.
She also reported that Anastasia’s lawyer had received a reply to one of his recent inquiries to the Kizel PTDC management regarding whether Anastasia is detained in that facility. The reply claimed that this information was a state secret.
“That’s some progress, at least. Because before, we would get responses saying that no such person had been detained and that they knew nothing about her. They are not saying that anymore, but now they cite state secrets,” Diana Fomenko said. She added that the prison did not accept letters addressed to Anastasia because officially she has never been detained.
The imprisoned journalist holds incommunicado status: Russia has not officially acknowledged arresting or imprisoning her. However, RIA Pivden reports, the International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed that Anastasia Hlukhovska is detained in a Russian jail.
Previously
As reported earlier, RIA Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska, illegally detained by Russia forces in August 2023, went on a hunger strike after being moved to PTDC No. 3 in Kizel, Perm region, Russia. The journalist’s sister has reported that she had been shaved bald after the transfer.
It was reported in late June 2025 that Anastasia Hlukhovska was in imprisoned in PTDC No. 3 in Kizel (Perm region, Russia). According to Slidstvo.Info, the journalist was detained on 20 August 2023 by FSB officers who broke into her apartment in Melitopol. They searched the apartment and confiscated all data storage devices: the laptop, the flash discs, the phone. After the search, she was taken to an undisclosed location and then moved to several consecutive prisons, including one in Taganrog, until she ended up in the Kizel PTDC No. 3 on 30 August 2024. Reportedly, she was tortured.
At least two Ukrainian prisoners, Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matveyev and journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, have died there.
Russian forces hacked the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian news outlet RIA Melitopol, which continuted to operate even after the occupation of Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia oblast), early on 21 August 2023. They later raided Melitopol, detaining the administrators of two Telegram channels: RIA Melitopol and Melitopol Is Ukraine.
These included Heorhiy Levchenko, Maksym Rupchov, Yana Suvorova, Mark Kaliush, Oleksandr Malyshev, and Vladyslav Hershon. Journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska, who contributed to the website before the full-scale invasion, was also detained. Some of them have already been convicted by Russian courts.
According to the Institute of Mass Information, no fewer than 26 Ukrainian civilians working in the media, including Anastasia Hlukhovska, remain in Russian prisons today.