Oleksandr Mogolenets
Oleksandr Mogolenets
Date of disappearance: March 19, 2022
Place of disappearance: Mezenivka village, Sumy region
Oleksandr Mogolenets spent 15 years in the Border Guard Service and participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation. His contract expired two months before the Russian invasion, and he resigned from the service.
Oleksandr lived with his family in the village of Mezenivka, Sumy region. The village is about 6 km from the Russian border. So, the village quickly became occupied when Russia launched a full-scale invasion. After capturing the village, the occupiers ordered all hunters to hand over their hunting weapons.
On March 19, 2022, on the premises of the local starosta, Oleksandr Moholenets was captured by the Russian military while handing over his hunting weapons. On the same day, he called his wife Kateryna from his phone and said: “I was taken prisoner”. Three days later, several Russian soldiers armed with machine guns searched the house where Oleksandr lived with his family. In April of the same year, Kateryna received a call from an unknown person who said he was sending her greetings from her husband. This was the last news from Oleksandr.
In May 2022, Russian telegram channels disseminated information about Oleksandr Moholenko’s capture. According to the latest data, as of July 2024, the Russian authorities are holding Oleksandr Moholenko in penal colony No. 4 in the city of Alekseevka, Belgorod region.
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