In early March 2014, Euromaidan activists from Rivne Valery Vashchuk and Ivan Bondareс disappeared in Crimea.
On March 6, they were detained by the police in Akmesdzhit (Simferopol). On March 7, Valery Vashchuk called his sister Svitlana and reported about the detention at the train station. In a conversation with his sister Valery noted that they went to the platform with an unfurled Ukrainian flag in their hands. Since then there has been no contact with the missing.
For more than 10 years their whereabouts remain unknown.
On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine posted information about the disappearance of Valery Vashchuk and Ivan Bondareс. The Department of Internal Affairs of the Kherson region opened a criminal case under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Intentional murder”.
There is no information about the disappearance of Valeriy Vashchuk and Ivan Bondarec on the websites of the Russian law-enforcement agencies.