The Dzhankoysky District Court in the annexed Crimea sentenced Aleksey Kiselyov, former captain of the Ukrainian Navy and ex-commander of the Ukrainian intelligence ship Slavutich, from the Kherson region, to eight years and six months in a strict regime colony. This is reported by the Ukrainian edition of Grati.
He was accused of participating in an illegal armed formation (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code). We are talking about participation in the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan, which was recognized as terrorist in Russia.
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According to the FSB, Kiselev supplied other members of the battalion with food and prepared them for a naval blockade of the Crimean peninsula – he taught them how to manage ships that supposedly were supposed to place ropes along the Crimean coast and thereby block the movement of ships.
Kiselev denies his guilt and claims that he knows nothing about the weapons, members and goals of the volunteer detachment. He admitted that he was familiar with the creator of the detachment, businessman Lenur Islyamov, but did not maintain any relations with him. Islyamov also denies that Aleksei Kiselev was involved in the battalion.
Russian security forces detained Kiselev on July 22 last year, when he was on his way to the headquarters of the Red Cross in Genichesk, occupied by Russian troops. After that, he was taken to the Crimea and placed in a pre-trial detention center. In a published statement, Kiselev said that after the arrest and search, his money was lost, his car was stolen, and he himself was tortured.
“The senior of the group ordered me to be taken to the basement of the 17th vocational school of Genichesk. I was in the basement from 22 pm to 10 am on July 27, 2022. All this time – five days – I was beaten and severely tortured with electric current. They kept asking me about partisan movement and my participation in it, as well as a cache of weapons,” he said. “Now I need medical help. My ribs are broken, there are dislocations of the joints of my arms and legs, and a broken tooth.”
Aleksey Kiselev said that a complaint about torture was sent to the military investigation department of the Southern District, but the result was zero. At the end of October, he went on a hunger strike, he was supported by the prisoners of six more cells of the special block of the isolation ward. They contain detainees in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
