Russian citizen Victor Ageyev who is facing trial in the Ukrainian town of Novoaidar in Luhansk region for terrorism is not on the list for a swap of prisoners of war, which is supposed to be conducted by Christmas, according to the Ukrainian news outlet hromadske.ua.
Svetlana Ageyeva, the mother of a Russian military serviceman, Viktor Ageyev, who has been captured by Ukrainian troops in Donbas, has complained to the Russian ombudswoman about the inactivity of Russian consuls and the hired lawyer, according to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Mothers of Ukrainian political prisoner Stanislav Klykh and captive Russian contracted soldier Viktor Ageyev have jointly appealed to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine via a video clip recorded in Kyiv by a Novaya Gazeta reported Pavel Kanygin, after Svetlana Ageyeva was allowed to visit her son.
Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's humanitarian representative in the Tripartite Contact Group for Donbas settlement Iryna Gerashchenko said that the Russian consul had so far failed to visit Viktor Ageyev, the Russian contracted soldier earlier captured by Ukrainian forces in Luhansk region.
Mother of Viktor Ageyev, the Russian contracted soldier earlier captured by Ukrainian forces in Luhansk region after a shootout with a sabotage recon group he was part of, has met her son, Novaya Gazeta’s special correspondent Pavel Kanygin reported by phone from Ukraine’s Starobelsk in Luhansk region.
The mother of a Russian military serviceman Viktor Ageyev, Svetlana, has crossed into Ukraine on Friday, July 21, a Russian journalist Pavel Kanygin, who accompanies the woman, has told Novaya Gazeta by phone from a train late Friday.
Ukraine's envoy in the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup and First Deputy Chairperson of the Ukrainian parliament Iryna Gerashchenko advises Svetlana Ageyeva, the mother of recently captured Russian soldier Viktor Ageyev, to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to free Ukrainian hostages unlawfully held in Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has dismissed as "lies" claims that Russian citizen Viktor Ageyev, who was captured by the Ukrainian forces in Luhansk region, was in fact a contracted serviceman on active duty in the Russian armed forces, that’s despite Ageyev's own confession, Radio Svoboda reports referring to the press service of Russia’s Southern Military District.
Viktor Ageyev, a Russian national earlier captured by Ukrainian forces in Luhansk region, has confirmed in his interview with TSN news service that he was deployed to eastern Ukraine after signing a contract for service in the Armed Forces of Russia.
The mother of Viktor Ageyev, who was taken captive in Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, insists that her son still serves in the Russian army under a contract and was even promoted to the rank of private first class in May this year, according to the Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta.