“I know that when they acknowledge a prisoner it’s usually when a person has already lost his or her health or is exhausted. So I’m worried,' said Natalia Kulakivska. | Anthony Galloway
Almost five months after her husband was taken away by Russian soldiers right in front of her, Natalia Kulakivska now has hope that her soul mate is still alive. Until recently, Kulakivska wasn’t sure whether her husband Yevhen had been killed or not.
“It’s not a relief. It’s just information that makes me neither happy nor sad,” says Kulakivska, who lives in the city of Bucha, just west of the capital Kyiv. Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity. Many of the practices associated with making someone disappear – torture, depriving them of a fair trial and inhumane treatment – are also war crimes under the Geneva Conventions.It all started when the Russians began capturing areas in and around Bucha in an attempt to encircle Kyiv in late February. The battle for Bucha, a Kyiv satellite city of about 37,000 residents, was raging by early March and nobody could find out anything.
The soldiers pointed at Kulakivska while questioning Yevhen. She believes the soldiers were threatening they would do something to her unless he started talking.She hopes Yevhen will be released as part of a prisoner exchange.According to the Ukrainian Red Cross, he is listed in Russia as a normal prisoner rather than a military prisoner.
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