The mystery of the young Ukrainian policeman captured in the war for Russia grows

In the middle of the war between Russia and Ukraine tragic stories arise and others shrouded in mystery still seeking an explanation. Hence the case of a captured young Ukrainian policeman by the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Maryana Chechelyuk, 22 years oldallegedly was in the Olenivka detention center, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoW) were massacred last week, according to the versions.

Only two months as an agent in Ukraine

Just two months after the start of the dream job in MariupolChechelyuk was detained by Putin’s army as a member of his country’s security forces.

Exactly nothing was known about the young man since massacre in Olenivka, Donetsk oblast, in eastern Ukraine, where each side blames the other.

According to the data that have come out and disseminated by the British media, at least 53 Ukrainian POWs were killed and around 74 wounded.

The young officer had been at the Azovstal steel plant when Ukrainian troops surrendered to their Putin opponents.

Prisoner of war?

On May 1, hundreds of women and children, including Maryana and her sister, were moved from the factory through a “humanitarian corridor”which worked for the first time since the invasion began.

The group was brought to the city of Bezymyannoye, where the Russians set up a “filtration range” in a school.

Chechelyuk was arrested and transferred to occupied Donetsk, where she was placed in a pre-trial detention center and then went to Olenivka prison.

Both sides blame each other for the detention center massacre, e Ukraine categorically denies Russian claims of hitting the facilities with HIMAR missiles.

Contrasting versions

In Kiev, Russia is said to have launched the attack to destroy evidence of torture of detaineesincluding those who have ties to law enforcement or state security.

Ukrainians consider the delay in the authorization of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit the site after Friday’s attack, broadcasts Mirror.

Human rights

Olga Romanovdirector of the human rights group Russia behind barsexplained: “Maryana Chechelyuk, from Mariupol, was locked up in a filtration camp in May”.

And he specified: “After which they sent her first to a cell in a detention center in Donetsk, and then to the penal colony No. 120 in Olenivka”.

However, she was emphatic with the present: “We don’t know what happened to him now.” And she claims she found “testimonies from people she was helping until they took her (captive).”

What the young policeman’s father said

The father of the young policeman, Vitaly ChechelyukHe was sad and full of doubts. He claimed he did not understand why the Russians had kept him his daughter.

“Before the war, she only worked in the police for two months as an investigator,” she admitted.

And while her younger sister is speculated to have been separated from her, her father wondered in the midst of a warlike conflict that seems to have no end: “Why was she arrested?”