Russian invaders intensify abductions and terror against Ukrainian civic activists and journalists

Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, Russian invaders confronted by local protesters in Skadovsk, Kherson oblast Photo Skadovsk City

 

Russian soldiers have been targeting activists, journalists and local politicians in all towns and cities they have seized, with the latest victim Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, a civic activist and journalist from Prymorsk in the Zaporizhya oblast.  Ovsiannikov, the head of two local civic initiatives, had been active in the peaceful protests since Russia occupied Prymorsk on 1 March, and the invaders almost certainly knew this when they turned up at his home in the morning of 26 March.  Ovsinnikov was, at least, released that evening, though the invaders have removed his computer, etc., and very likely tortured him.  Other public figures, including Viktor Maruniak, Head of the Stara Zburivka Council in the Kherson oblast, Dmytro Vasyliev, Secretary of the Nova Kakhovka City Council, and 23-year-old Ihor Prusayev have not been seen since they were abducted several days ago.  There are particularly grave concerns for the life and safety of Maruniak, who is being deprived of vital medication.

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