The son of the defendant in the so-called case of Ukrainian saboteurs, Volodymyr Dudka, Illia, said that the president of Ukraine ignored the relatives of political prisoners and no one knows if any negotiations are underway to release them. He announced this via his Facebook page.
“Father is in jail for 3 years and 8 months. For 8 months, my father and I did not see each other even through the bars. As dad said: “10 years and 2 months are left … 10 years of the groundhog’s day.” It’s scary. With his health and the most outrageous lack of medicine, the remaining period cannot be sustained”,- the report said.
Illia Dudka emphasized that the president of Ukraine ignored the relatives of political prisoners, and no one knows whether any negotiations are underway to release them, “but based on the complete silence of the authorities, the conclusion suggests itself.”
We remind that on November 9, 2016, FSB officers detained Volodymyr Dudka, Dmytro Shtyblikov, Oleksii Bessarabov and Hlib Shablii in Sevastopol on suspicion of preparing a sabotage in Crimea (article 30 and paragraph a of part 2 of article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that these repressive actions are being carried out for an external audience with an attempt to discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the international community, as well as for an internal Russian audience to convince that Ukrainians are allegedly dangerous.
On May 18, 2017, Dmytro Shtyblikov entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation, that is, he pleaded guilty. Not a single independent lawyer was allowed to see him. On November 16, 2017, the so-called Sevastopol City Court sentenced him to 5 years in a maximum security colony and to a fine of 200 thousand rubles.
On April 4, 2019, the so-called Sevastopol City Court sentenced the persons involved in the so-called case of Ukrainian saboteurs Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksii Bessarabov to 14 years in prison and imposed a fine of 350 and 300 thousand rubles, respectively.