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Mykola Shcherbyna

Mykola Shcherbyna

Date of disappearance: November 14, 2022

Place of disappearance: Novotroyitske village, Kherson region

 

Mykola Shcherbyna is a resident of Kherson. Since childhood, he has loved to cook. He studied to become a food salesman and entrepreneur and dreamed of starting his own business. However, the full-scale invasion of Russia prevented him from completing his studies. In early March 2022, Russian troops seized Kherson and almost the entire Kherson region. 

In November 2022, Mykola Shcherbyna went to the village of Novotroitske, where his grandmother lived. A few days later, he was captured by the Russian military and taken to an unknown location. From the correspondence with the occupation authorities, the family knows that the man was taken to the Simferopol detention center in occupied Crimea. This was done by representatives of Russian counterintelligence from the Rapier unit on suspicion of passing coordinates to Russian troops. Later, the released prisoners of war reported that Mykola was being held in the SIZO-2 in Kamyshyn, Volgograd region. Kamyshyn, Volgograd region.

This publication was compiled with the support of the International RenaissanceFoundation. 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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