Send Letter eng
Cards

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.  

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.

0 Comments

Leave a comment

Your e-mail address will not be published. Mandatory fields are marked *

Relevant publications
More articles
Analytics
Human rights defenders develop a roadmap for documenting the torture of Ukrainians as crimes against humanity

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and its partners — the Media Initiative for Human Rights and the ZMINA Human Rights Center — have been documenting crimes committed by Russian military personnel and other representatives of the Russian authorities against the civilian population of Ukraine in the occupied territories.

15 July 2025

Enforced disappearances
Kherson Region Activist Slashes his Wrist after Arrest to Save his Wife from the Russians

An activist from Nova Kakhovka, Oleksandr (his surname withheld for security reasons), filmed the dismantling of Lenin monuments across the Kherson region before the full-scale invasion. After the occupation began, he became a target for the Russians. He was tortured for two weeks in order to force him to reveal the identities of other civic leaders in the city and to “cooperate” with the occupiers.

25 June 2025

Advocacy
MEPs Demand the Release of Abducted Ukrainians in Occupied Territories: Resolution in the Works

The European Parliament held a debate on the draft resolution “The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine: the dramatic situation of illegally detained Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war.” The document condemns the widespread unlawful detention of Ukrainians, torture, fabricated charges, and inhumane conditions of imprisonment.

17 June 2025

More articles