24-year-old Maryana Chechelyuk from Mariupol returned from Russian captivity.
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A policewoman from Mariupol returned home as part of the prisoner exchange that took place on Friday, May 31. The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Dmitry Lubinets, announced his long-awaited return on Telegram.
Now Maryana is home! She can hear the voice of her relatives, and soon meet them! The whole country rejoices at the return of the girl, as well as the return home of every Ukrainian and every Ukrainian woman! Congratulations on our native land,” he noted.
Lubinets also released a touching video in which the girl calls her family on the phone for the first time upon her return.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that Maryana Chechelyuk was born in Mariupol, and after graduating from the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs she entered the police school.
Subsequently, she became an investigator in Mariupol and performed duties for about a year before the start of a full-scale invasion. During the evacuation from Azovstal storage facilities, Maryana and her younger sister were deported. The parents managed to free the youngest daughter.
From the filtration point, Maryana was placed in a pre-trial detention center in Donetsk; she was kept in solitary confinement for two months. Subsequently, the Russians kept her in the Yelenovskaya colony, a prison in Mariupol and Taganrog. The girl was in Russian captivity for more than two years.
Let us remind you that on May 31, 75 Ukrainians were returned from Russian captivity – privates, sergeants and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU, GNSU and civilians. In particular, 19 soldiers who were captured from Zmeiny Island and 10 defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal returned home.
Source: Racurs
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