Vasyl Volokhin
Vasyl Volokhin
Date of abduction: March 5, 2022
Place of abduction: Dymer village, Kyiv region
It happened on March 5 in Dymer. In the evening, Vasyl Volokhin got on his bicycle and rode toward the Vignaland plant, but he never returned. His wife Olha immediately realized that something bad had happened because the village was under occupation. For some time, waiting for news about her husband, the woman resisted leaving for the territory controlled by the Ukrainian army. But in the end, she left: she was saving her three children, the youngest child was only six months old at the time.
On April 4, 2022, Olha received a call from a woman whose husband had returned from captivity. He said that he was in the same cell as Vasyl Volokhin. As it turned out, the man was held for several days near the Vinnaland plant and then taken to Russia via Gostomel and Belarus. It is unknown why he was detained. Later, his family found a photo of Vasyl in a Russian telegram channel with the caption “captured,” his name, surname, and date of birth. In addition, the family received a letter from him. It contained only two words: “alive and well”. The last known place where Volokhin’s detention was held was a pre-trial detention center in Bryansk.
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