The occupiers are forcing a political prisoner from Kherson region Yakimenko to fight against Ukraine

"And again, the people of Prigogine [Russian businessman and associate of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Wagner group] came to the colony where my husband is, in the next portion of meat," she wrote. According to her, it was from the colony # 4 in Pugachev, Saratov region, where Kherson is located, 70% of the prisoners recruited "returned in packages". The woman also said that last time to force her husband to go to the front, Yakimenko was closed at the club.

He has now been forced to listen to calls to participate in the war against Ukraine. Yakimenko claims that three colony staff practically tried to force Kherson to get out of the barrack. "The man categorically refused to go, saying that she was not a terrorist like them, and that she loves her country and is not going to fight against her people. It has come to a strong scandal, but still Vladimir managed to stay in the barracks," Olena said.

The Ukrainian was threatened that when the "Wagnets" came to recruit people for the third time, they will take him to the front for the front, and he "will not bewrilled. " "This is what Vladimir said, when Prigogine first came, he warned that it would be: the first and the second will be at will, and for the third time they will take everyone in a row. Ined.

According to the Ukrainian human rights project ZMina, Vladimir Yakimenko - taxi driver and activist of "Avtomaydan" from the village of Chaplinka in the Kherson region. After 2014, he was engaged in volunteer and assisted the Armed Forces, as well as exporting the Crimeans who left the peninsula during the occupation. On June 11, 2017, when Yakimenko crossed the border from the ARC, he was detained by Russian security forces. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison.