Details emerge of abduction of Ukrainians from Bucha and Gostomel by Russian military

A list compiled by the Ukrainian human rights organisation Centre for Civil Liberties (which won this year's Nobel Prize) describes the kidnappings of 16 civilians near Kiev.

One of the stories was told byNatalya Kulakovskaya, to the Russian publication Agents:

Russian soldiers came to the house in Bucha of 46-year-old car mechanic Evgeny Guryanov and 43-year-old accountant Natalia Kulakovskaya on March 18, Kulakovskaya told Agstent. The soldiers said that Guryanov was coordinating the AFU fire and storing weapons. He was not found in the house, but they found computers, a video camera and other equipment and took it all away with them.

The military ordered the couple to say goodbye and told Natalia that "it would be nice if her husband surrendered," she said. "I said that this was impossible, because he is a civilian," the Agency's interviewee continued. After a while, the military took her husband with them and Natalia was released.

The husband of Kulakovskaya's sister Snezhana Lubich, a 38-year-old construction worker, was taken away before that.

Guryanov and Lyubich were seen in the pre-trial detention centre in Novozybkov, Bryansk region, in March and April by citizens of Ukraine, who were kept in the same detention centre, but then released home. The International Red Cross has confirmed that Guryanov and Lyubich are in Russian custody, writes "Agents", referring to Kulakovskaya.

In August 2022, the woman received an official response from the Russian Defence Ministry stating that her husband and her sister's husband had been detained "for opposing a special military operation and are being held on the territory of the Russian Federation". However, the response said, both men, who according to Kulakovskaya were not related to the army, were "held in accordance with the requirements of the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war".