Chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak has called on mothers of Russian soldiers who have gone missing in Donbas to apply for the SBU’s hostage exchange center for DNA tests to determine the whereabouts of their sons, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
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UNIAN: Ukraine’s SBU encourages mothers of missing Russian soldiers in Donbas to undergo DNA tests
Viktor Ageyev (R), a Russian detained in the war-torn Ukrainian east, sits with his mother Svetlana Ageyeva as he is presented to the media during a meeting organised by the Ukrainian security forces, in a temporary prison in Starobilsk, some 80 kms (about 50 miles) north of the rebel stronghold of Lugansk, on July 22.
The 21-year-old Russian captured by Kyiv's forces in the war-torn Ukrainian east claimed to have travelled there on a military mission as a serving professional soldier, repeating Kyiv's account. The Russian defence ministry earlier dismissed Kyiv's claim as "a fiction of Ukrainian propagandists," saying Ageyev served as a conscript but then left the forces. Ageyev is being held prisoner by Kyiv and has been charged with involvement in a "terrorist" organisation, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.
