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Anatolii Vaskivskyi

Anatolii Vaskivskyi

Date of abduction: March 21, 2022

Place of abduction: Vovchkiv village, Kyiv region

 

Anatolii Vaskivskyi is a former construction worker from the village of Vovchkiv in the Kyiv region. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, he and his family found themselves under occupation. On March 21, 2022, Russians broke into his home: Anatolii was beaten and forced to his knees, his phone was demanded, and his wife and sister were illegally interrogated about which of their fellow villagers had weapons and fought in eastern Ukraine. The Russians took Vaskivsky to an unknown location. After the de-occupation of the Kyiv region, the released civilian said that he and Anatolii were held in Obukhovychi, Kyiv region. There, Vaskivsky was tortured by driving a knife under his knee. On April 3 or 4, according to the Ukrainian military, the occupiers took the prisoners towards Belarus. In June 2023, the released prisoners of war said that the Russians held them and Vaskivsky in the Novozybkov detention center in Bryansk Oblast and Donskoy, near Tula. There, the invaders hardly fed the prisoners and did not provide them with medical care. The Russians also confirmed through the ICRC that they were holding Anatolii in captivity. Since June 2023, Vaskivsky’s family has not received any new information about him.

This publication was compiled with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation. It’s content is the exclusive responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the International Renaissance Foundation.

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