Almost a year has passed since the disappearance of the resident of the village of Novooleksiivka in Henichesk district, Andriy Dubushchak.
He was detained by the occupiers in Russian Taganrog. His relatives still have no information about the man’s whereabouts.
This was reported by Zarema Barieva, manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CTRC).
Andriy Dubushchak worked as a taxi driver and was engaged in passenger transportation within Ukraine and beyond.
On November 15, 2024, the man went missing in the city of Taganrog, right in the building of the pre-trial detention center (SIZO), Zarema reports.
It is reported that the man, together with his partner, was detained at the Mangush checkpoint for 14 days to clarify certain circumstances and was sent to Taganrog SIZO. It was then that he last called his 76-year-old father.
For two weeks the men were held in the same cell. Then they were separated and taken one by one for a polygraph. Andriy’s partner, Ruslan, recalls that after the interrogation “there was no face on Andriy.” Later a SIZO employee reported that Dubushchak “received his things and left.” However, no one saw him beyond the gates, the article says.
“According to preliminary information available to us, he was detained on charges of involvement in the so‑called case of the battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan, but for almost a year the relatives have been kept in the dark about the man’s real whereabouts”, – notes the CTRC manager.
Earlier MOST wrote that on the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region the occupiers have been holding Bekir Gugurik in SIZO for almost half a year.