SOS! Volunteers, Activists, Local Leaders in Captivity

Euromaidan SOS has published a list of local leaders and volunteers who disappeared and were captured by russia, and has launched a joint action campaign to protect them.

Ukrainian cities and their residents actively and unbendingly resist the invading actions of the occupiers, so, russia resorts to atrocities that are war crimes.

We are talking about persecution of local government representatives, journalists, religious figures, volunteers, and civil society activists in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

Threats, physical violence, disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and other forms of harassment in Melitopol, Kherson, Berdiansk, Kakhovka, Slavutych, and other settlements are reported by the affected activists and their relatives. Those released inform about threats, illegal physical violence, and improper conditions in captivity.

Every day, there are more and more such messages. Occupiers force cooperation or involuntary cessation of public activities.

This is a war crime. In the context of an international armed conflict, the detention of civilians is strictly prohibited in accordance with Articles 34, 49 of the Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons from 12.08.1949, Article 75 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions from 12.08.1949, concerning the protection of victims of international armed conflicts (Protocol 1) from 08.06.1977.

We urge:

• Activists of Ukraine and other countries to join the campaign to protect the people left alone with the occupier by filling out the form: https://forms.gle/enr5822SvPrJZC6Y7
• People who have witnessed detention or have any other information about harassment in the occupied territories, to report it here: https://forms.gle/d9g8q51BikCE5pnN9
• The ODIHR of the OSCE, the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, the monitoring and convention mechanisms of the Council of Europe, the geographical and thematic mandates of the UN, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), the International Committee of Red Cross toensure an international presence in the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied after the russian invasion in February 2022, and to take active actions to protect representatives of civil society from persecution.

Public part of the list of civil society representatives who disappeared or are illegally detained by russia as of March 26, 2022:

1. Afanasiev Dmytro, MP of the Korabelnyi District Council, Kherson obl.
2. Bezliudna Tetiana, MP of the village council of the Andriyivka village, Chernihiv obl.
3. Bodiu Dmytro, bishop of the Christian Evangelical Church “Word of Life” in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia obl.
4. Bozhko Hryhorii, businessman, former MP of the Chernihiv Regional Council, Chernihiv obl.
5. Budalovskyi Mykola, head of the Andriivskyi Starosta District, Chernihiv obl.
6. Fomenko Andrii, minister of the Church of Evangelical Baptist Christians, Mariupol, Donetsk obl.
7. Ivannikova-Katsemon Yuliia, Red Cross volunteer, Kyiv obl.
8. Karabero Volodymyr, head of Manhush territorial community of Mariupol district, Donetsk obl.
9. Kartsan Oleksiy, starosta of the Hremiach village, Novhorod-Siverskyi district, Kharkiv obl.
10. Khropun Volodymyr, Red Cross volunteer, Kyiv obl.
11. Kumok Mykhailo, publisher of the editorial office “Melitopol Information,” Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia obl.
12. Levin Maks, photojournalist, disappeared on the front line near Kyiv.
13. Maruniak Viktor, starosta of Starozburyiv ATC of Starostynskyi district of Holoprystan City Council, Skadovsk district, Kherson obl.
14. Maslii Mykola, MP of the Kupiansk City Council, Kharkiv obl.
15. Matveyev Yevhen, mayor of Dniprorudne, Zaporizhzhia obl.
16. Medvediov Oleksandr, head of the Snovsk ATC, Chernihiv obl.
17. Musienko Oleksandr, head of Chulakivka ATC of Holopristan district, Kherson obl.
18. Myroshnyk Oleh, Bilovodsk village head, Luhansk obl.
19. Mytko Vasyl, Nikolske village head, Donetsk obl.
20. Paliukh Yurii, secretary of Skadovsk City Council, Skadovsk, Kherson obl.
21. Payevska Julia, volunteer and paramedic. Mariupol, Donetsk obl.
22. Ponomariov Oleksandr, MP, disappeared in Berdiansk.
23. Rieznikov Mykhailo, pastor of the Church of Evangelical Baptist Christians, Mariupol, Donetsk obl.
24. Samoiudiuk Ivan, First Deputy Mayor of Enerhodar.
25. Serhii Pryima, head of the Melitopol District Council, Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia obl.
26. Shapovalov Oleksandr, mayor of Beryslav, Kherson obl.
27. Sikalenko Mykola, head of Tsyrkuniv ATC, Kharkiv district of Kharkiv obl.
28. Suhenko Olha, starosta of the Motyzhyn village, Makariv ATC.
29. Svyrydenko Tetiana, head of the Ivankiv Village Council, Vyshhorodskyi District of Kyiv obl.
30. Takadzhy Dmytro, head of the Nyzhni Siryhozy village, Kherson obl.
31. Talalai Ihor, volunteer (took people out of Mariupol to Dnipro), Manhush, Donetsk obl.
32. Tiurin Volodymyr, Deputy Head of Shchastia City CMA, Shchastia, Luhansk obl.
33. Tsyhipa Serhii, public figure, Nova Kakhovka, Kherson obl.
34. Vasyliev Dmytro, secretary of Novokakhovsk City Council, city of Nova Kakhovka, Kherson obl.
35. Vyrozub Vasyl, priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Odesa obl.
36. Zarivnyi Oleksandr, an official of Oleshky City Council of Kherson obl.