Missing for the Crimea

Picket at the Russian embassy in Kyiv. September 2016. Frame Grani-TV

Ukraine has been fighting for the liberation of its hostages for the fourth year. Someone manages to pull out, someone is sitting behind the polar circle. Anti -Ukrainian demonstration processes become routine, repressions in the Crimea are gaining momentum - with the complete indifference of Russian society and the silence of the press.

The missing people are remembered less often than about political prisoners. We prepared the special project "missing for the Crimea."

Forcibly disappearance, torture, searches, threats, criminal repressions - speeches against the occupation were brutally suppressed. By bit, collecting information about activists who disappeared during the Crimean Spring, Ukrainian journalists Olga Reshetilova and Maria Tomak restore the tragic history of resistance.

Ruslan Zuev, one of the participants in the movement against the occupation: “I won’t want to survive what we experienced. Every day there was a feeling that this day was the last. I hid my children for months, didn’t even let them go to school.”

Vice Admiral Igor Voronchenko, who visited Russian captivity, about the hero of our first investigation: “When everyone turned away from us, and the command betrayed us, Timur came to us and said that they would become a live chain and would protect the headquarters. His group began to help us with food, water, provide information. It is difficult to even explain how much such support was important for us. I am very grateful to volunteers who are not very grateful to the volunteers who are not. betrayed us. "

Timur Shaimardanov not only helped the Ukrainian military - he bought information from the "green men" that he was going to transfer to the mainland. But I did not have time.

Special project "faces"