Being kidnapped, tortured, and in the end, getting a falsified accusation. The Russians have held Oleksiy Kiselyov hostage for almost three months.

From 1997 to 2001, the 58-year-old resident of Henichesk was the commander of the reconnaissance ship "Slavutich" - the first ship built for the Ukrainian Navy. "Slavutich" was put into operation on the first anniversary of Independence - August 24, 1992. In 2001, Kiselyov retired as the captain of the first rank. He lived in Sevastopol, and he was engaged in public activities - he was a deputy of the city council, and he took care of veterans of the Navy of Ukraine. After the occupation of Crimea, he moved to Henichesk and became a volunteer - helping other displaced persons.

On July 22, he was kidnapped just on the street by unknown persons without identifying marks on his clothes. As Oleksiy later told the lawyer, they called each other "Shaman" and "Biker". They put a bag on the man's head, hit him in the stomach, broke his arms, threw him into a minibus, and took him to his home. Bandits ransacked the apartment and robbed it, stole Oleksiy's car from the garage, and took him to a torture chamber, which was turned into one of the city's schools. We have already talked about this place before.

For the next five days, Oleksiy was beaten and tortured with an electric current. "Interrogations" lasted for two hours. They were led by an occupant with the call sign "Tractorist". He demanded from Kiselyov that he confess that he had passed on information about the Russian military to the SBU. On July 27, Oleksiy was taken to the pre-trial detention center of occupied Aqmescit (Simferopol). The torture continued there, but the demands of the occupants changed. Now they demanded that Kiselyov recognize himself as a soldier of the battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan, and in the end, they charged him with participation in an illegal armed formation.

The Russian occupants call the formation for the protection of public order and the state border "Asker" the "extremist Crimean Tatar battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan". The FSB falsified dozens of cases against the Crimeans in which this name appears.

Oleksiy Kiselyov does not admit his guilt. But the occupation court chose detention for him as a precautionary measure. The next session was scheduled for November 27.

The representative office of the President of Ukraine in Crimea calls the arrest and torture of Kiselyov another war crime of the Russian Federation and demands his immediate release.