Mother of Ukrainian soldier captured in Donbas: Prisoners taken to Russia as laborers
Many Ukrainians who were captured in the Donbas have been taken to Russia, where they are used as laborers, claims Yadviga Lozinskaya, mother of the missing soldier Andrei Lozinskiy, Gordon writes.
According to Lozinskaya, her 24 year-old son went missing in 2014 after the Illovaisk battles. Since then she has conducted the search for him herself.
The last time Andrei phoned his mother was on September 5, 2014, from someone else’s phone. He told her he had been captured. Lozinskaya traveled to the former SBU building in occupied Donetsk, but she was assured that they did not have Andrei.
“Much later on I learned that he was there. They didn’t want to show him to me. Then they transferred him to colony No. 10 in Snizhne and held him there until December 2014. When they started to establish order in Donetsk, everyone who was on the lists was exchanged, but those who were considered missing were handed over to the Luhansk bandits,” Lozinskaya explained.
She has asked everyone who returned from captivity about Andrei.
“They told me that in 2015 he was in a factory in the region between Brianka and Sverdlovsk in the Luhansk province. Then they were taken to the 38th colony near Sverdlovsk. And from there they were taken to various construction operations in the Kursk and Rostov provinces,” the mother said.
According to her, nobody acknowledges this officially.
“As early as 2014 we were told that there were 140 wounded Ukrainians in the Rostov military hospital. What happened to them? Those who came out of prison said that some of them were sent back to Ukraine, and others were taken into Russia. It’s possible that they are taken to Russian building sites as laborers,” Lozinskaya emphasized.