One thought helped Yevhen Mezhevyi overcome the ordeal of Russian captivity – the thought of his three young children. Single father Mezhevyi, 40, was captured by Russian troops at a checkpoint when he and his children were fleeing their war-torn hometown of Mariupol last spring. For 45 days, Mezhevyi was kept at the notorious Olenivka prison camp in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
The article below was written by Oksana Kovalenko and Kateryna Kobernyk of the Ukrainian Babel, and the story they’ve chosen to tell is heartbreaking because stories like this have become commonplace in today’s Ukraine.
A Philosophy Professor And Karadzic's Lawyer: The Serbian Observers Who Praised Russia's 'Sham' Elections In Occupied Ukraine globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three Serbians a former defense lawyer for Serb war criminals, a onetime adviser to Bosnian Serb secessionist Milorad Dodik, and an exuberant journalist were in Russian-occupied Ukraine for what Kyiv and the West say were fake elections. Who sent them and on what authority?