UNIAN journalist Dmytro Khyliuk, who went missiong in Kyiv oblast in spring the Russian occupation, is being held in a pre-trial detention center in Bryansk, Russian Federation.
Media Initiative for Human Rights coordinator Olha Reshetylova spoke with Hromadske about this.
“After interviewing Volodymyr Khrypun, a Red Cross volunteer who had been released from captivity, we found out that journalist Dmytro Khyliuk is being held in a detention center in Bryansk. Volodymyr heard his last name at a roll call, he didn’t even see him. But when we started making this information public, the Russians stopped calling them by their last names and assigned them numbers instead,” said Olha Reshetylova.
The International Committee of the Red Cross should have confirmed the whereabouts of the prisoners, but its representatives do not have access to the colonies and pretrial detention centers where Ukrainians are being illegally held.
As IMI reported, on March 28, journalist Natalia Bohuta reported that Dmytro Khyliuk had gone missing and was probably being held captive by the Russian military. Despite the Kyiv oblast having been liberated from the Russian occupiers, UNIAN journalist Dmytro Khyliuk was not found, and there has been no contact with him since early March of this year.