Concerns grow for 3 OSCE workers jailed since shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Dmytro Shabanov, Maksym Petrov, and Vadym Golda have been detained since April 2022 on charges by Russian-controlled courts.
- The OSCE condemned the convictions, asserting the workers were performing their official duties as mandated by all 57 member states, including Russia.
- Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen stated that imprisoning civilian officials of an international organization is completely unacceptable and securing their release is a top priority for the Finnish OSCE Chairpersonship.
- Ukrainian Ambassador Yurii Vitrenko demanded the unconditional release of the three, stating they should never have faced illegal detention or fake trials.
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Concerns grow for 3 OSCE workers jailed since shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
VIENNA (AP) — It was late at night when they came for Dmytro Shabanov, a security assistant in eastern Ukraine at the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Concerns grow for 3 OSCE workers jailed since shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
More than three years after they were seized from their homes, concerns are growing for three Ukrainians who worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Concerns grow for 3 OSCE workers jailed since shortly after Russia
VIENNA (AP) — It was late at night when they came for Dmytro Shabanov, a security assistant in eastern Ukraine at the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. His seizure from his home in the Luhansk region in April 2022 — weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion — was part of a coordinated operation by pro-Russian forces who detained him and two other Ukrainian OSCE workers. Maksym Petrov, an interp…
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