Worrying growing for three OSCE employees sentenced after Russian attack of Ukraine

Vienna (AP) – late at night when they arrived by Dyitro Shababanov, a security assistant in eastern Ukraine in the special security and cooperation of the Social Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Her attitude toward Luhansk in the District of Luhansk in April 2022 – weeks after the full attack of Moscow – it was part of the joint workshop with the Mos-Russian armies cover her and two Ukrainians. Maksym Petrov, a translator, was also taken in the District of Luhansk, and Vadym Golda, another security assistant, was arrested in neighboring Donetsk.

For more three years later, three Ukrainian citizens worked with efforts to monitor groups were not external in the Eastern districts stay behind bars. They did not become part of the exchange of major prisoners and Russia.

Their imprisonments are raised in the alarms, Western countries and human rights, seeking immediate release while expressing anxiety about their health and in prison between allegations of abuse.

The international service of Russia and Russia in the OSCE did not respond to the requests of the media associated with the allegations or workforce with no persecution.

Immediate events in 2022

“He was taken home after the time to get home started working,” said Margaryta Shabalova, Shabanov, a resident of Kyiv. “I had the last call with him about 20 minutes before it happened.”

After his arrest, Shabanov disappeared three months, held infommimicado by Russian divided and interrogated in Luhansk Prison until his confession.

That sweet-fleet turned to Shobeleva’s life and looked down.

“Every morning, I get up and hope today will be different – that today I will hear that my Doma is free,” she said. “In pain, the days, and there is nothing else. Waiting, ignorance, hopeless hope has opened despair.”

Fighting with tears, Shabolova describes life without her husband.

“Peace on the dinner table, birthdays and holidays over three years.

OSCEs based on Vienna-based OSCE, commenting, and encouraging democracy and mortuary, and in the international labor, he said that his husband believed “the international service could protect the earth.”

The OSCE had worked for fire employment in the east of Ukraine, where Pro-Moscow Differences have been fighting for A Ukrainian government forces since 2014, about 14,000 were killed and before full attack. The guards watched a truce violation, renewable dialogue and local halts emerge from the reinforcement of the important military-based infrastructure.

But on March 31, 2022, Russia can prevent the expansion of OSCE Mission, and the separating leaders announced that it is illegal next month.

It is unclear that the three arrested for bers have tried to flee east of Ukraine.

Petriely employs Ukraine such as Shabanev, Petrov and Golda work in the Luhansk and Donetsk districts to shut down OSCE MISISION. They have wiped offices, protected OSCE’s goods, including armed vehicles, drones and cameras, and the release of their colleagues worldwide. That operation was completed in October 2022.

Beliefs and Prison sentences

The three men were arrested even though he bears the scriptures that confirm their insecurity, said Osce.

Shabanov and Petrov were convicted of rebellion against the Russian court in Luhansk in September 2022 and were sentenced to 13 years in prison. Golda, 57, was convicted of a court order in Donetsk, and under Moscow Control, July 2024 was sentenced to 14 years.

The international service in Russia said on November 2022, it was believed that the OSCE’s stewards of OSCE “usually not only appears but also illegal.” Without identifying three Ukrainian OSCE staff, the service said that local citizens were employed by Western Collection and “several” arrested.

The OSCE criticized the sentences and asked for deliverance from the three men immediately, asserted that they perform their official duties as all provinces 57, including Russia.

In the seven months after attack, Russia illegally incorporated Ukrainian regions, Luhansk, Cersonal, and Zaporizzhia, although they were not completely controlled.

On March 27, 2025, Russia conveys Shabanov in the District of Luhansk to the Russian District, According to the Ukraine’s Ivgelevemvers and Petrov.

Petrov lives at the risk of moving to Russia, he said.

The colonies of the country in Siberia are not known for difficult situations, where “prisoners often lose all contact with a foreign, successful ‘within the Russian national system,” Law Law in March. “As their health care stories have been given, the lack of proper medical care in the distant regions can be committed suicide,” added.

Allegations of beating, mental stress

Human Rights activist Maksmymymymymych, who was in the same Tuhansk Nights and Shabanov and Petrov from October 2024, said that both men were tortured during interrogation.

Shabanov was “beaten several times among questions until power was faint and experiencing severe mental stress,” he said.

Butketch said Shazazev, 38, you have problems with his back and legs. “It had to spend at least a few hours every day because of pain,” add.

PetroV, 45, has many health matters, “Bettketych, including the worst element of his exile,” exactly the time to ask questions. “

Kapalkina said both men were ‘damaged repeatedly when they were physically and physically harassed and eventually’ sign the money forced income under the enforcement. ‘

These allegations of torture could not be assured independently of AP.

Chits chits of Russia?

Butkevych raised three OSCE staff, non-military prisoners, likely “Chips” Moscow, “changed to someone or something more important in Russia. “

Finnish Foreign Foreign Minister Elina Vallonen, the current OSCE’s current chairman who said in the AP State who arrested the public officials of the international organization “is not fully accepted.”

“Protecting their release is the most important of being a seat of OSCE’s OSCE chairman,” he said.

OSCE secretary secretunator Feridun H. Sinirlio Bh. Sinirlio Bh. Served up with the matter, “said spokesman to Mossay in March and raised the magazine in Margey Lavrov.

Yuri Vitreko, Ukrainian ambassador in international organizations in Vienna, who are responsible for the three conditional organizations, saying they should not be refused “Russia, should be born in a false biscuit.”

Viterko suggested that some provinces of many influentials and Russia should have more pressure to help prevent their release. He didn’t point to those countries.

Shabaloova said he always asked “those who were powerful” to act.

“Don’t view it,” he said that OSCE and the international community should wonder why their actions would not lead to the release of her husband.

Only desired, he said, “I saw my door, just to hold his hand, to look in his eyes, and” he is at home. “”