Anastasia Glukhovska

Anastasia Glukhovska

Date of abduction: August 20, 2023

Place of abduction: Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region

On the night of August 19-20, 2023, Russian security forces raided Ukrainian media workers in Melitopol. Around six in the morning, they came to the home of 30-year-old Anastasia Glukhovska.

Before the full-scale invasion, the woman worked as a journalist at the local RIA-Melitopol news agency. But since the city’s occupation, she has stopped working in the editorial office and even registered with the local employment center.

On the morning of August 20, Anastasia was supposed to meet her mother, who arrived around eight o’clock and rang the intercom, but no one answered. She learned from her neighbors that people in uniforms without insignia had come and taken her daughter in an unknown direction around six o’clock.

Later, Russian television aired a report that reported on the exposure of several Ukrainian intelligence groups. The video showed the moment when people in uniform broke into Glukhovska’s apartment and took her away in handcuffs. Since Anastasia’s abduction, her relatives have been trying to find out where she is being held, but the occupation authorities have been hiding this information.

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