Ukraine crisis: Tortured politician’s widow mourns, as Russia vows to defend its interests
Ukraine crisis: Tortured politician’s
widow mourns, as Russia vows to defend its interests
Credit: The Independent
‘So many holes in his
body’. Elena Rybak describes the terrible injuries suffered by her husband but
refuses to blame pro-Kremlin militants
The death of her husband under torture had played
a part in thepresident of Ukraine’s decision to resume
military operations against separatists. But Elena Rybak’s immediate
feelings were very personal: devastating grief and numbing incomprehension
about what had happened.
There was the added horror of seeing the body of someone she
loved with terrible injuries inflicted. The body of Vladimir Rybak –
a town councillor and member of Yulia Tymoshenko’s Our Ukraine Fatherland party
– had been found floating in the river, having disappeared after a
confrontation with separatist militants. Read more >>
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