Serhiy Lyubych
Self-employed
On March 7, 2022, Serhiy Lyubych drove from Bucha to Hostomel to buy drinking water. According to eyewitnesses, Serhiy got out of his car and was kidnapped by Russian forces, who put a bag over his head and took him away. His empty bag was found at the scene, and his car was left without wheels. Serhiy has not been seen since.
As of April 30, 2022, he is reportedly being held in pretrial detention center number 2 in Novozybkov, in Russia’s Bryansk region. At the request of Human Rights Watch and the Red Cross, Russian authorities officially acknowledged Serhiy’s detention in Russia.
Daria Filippova
The author of the illustration, Daria Filippova, notes:
“In this work, I wanted to show the surprise of the horror that is happening to Serhiy, and as a result, the desperate loneliness in the complete “darkness” of events. After all, it is unlikely that at the beginning of the invasion, a civilian volunteer thought that he could be taken prisoner by the occupiers so insidiously while he was just helping the locals.”
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