{"id":12319,"date":"2017-12-10T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2017-12-10T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:34:41","slug":"sabotage-or-negligence-ukrainian-prosecution-ignores-testimonies-and-evidence-proving-that-ageev-is-a-russian-military-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/sabotage-or-negligence-ukrainian-prosecution-ignores-testimonies-and-evidence-proving-that-ageev-is-a-russian-military-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabotage or negligence: Ukrainian prosecution ignores testimonies and evidence proving that Ageev is a Russian military man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trial of Viktor Ageev, who was captured in summer by the Ukrainian forces in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine, is going on in Novoaydar. The military prosecutor\u2019s office ignored strong evidence confirming that the Russian citizen Ageev is a career Russian serviceman. The prosecution also did not file in the case some facts of extreme importance. This is the impression one gets after reading the material of the human rights activist Olga Reshetilova on the<\/strong> New West Media<\/a> website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The publication cites the comments of the prosecutor Oleksiy Mokhort made to the journalists at the Novoyaydar Court of Lugansk Oblast on November 24. According to Mokhort, Ageev allegedly \u201cresigned\u201d from the Russian army after the conscript service.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor also stated that the pretrial investigation had not established that the Russian citizen Ageev captured in a combat operation in Ukrainian Donbas was an active contract serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

He echoed the position of the Russian Ministry of Defense, whose representatives on June 28 also stressed that Ageev had been dismissed in 2016 and no longer was a regular soldier.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, these statements contrast sharply with the information previously voiced not only by the representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), journalists and volunteers in the field, but also by Ageev himself, as well as his mother.<\/p>\n

For example, that is how Vasyl Gritsak, the head of the SBU commented on the arrival of Ageev\u2019s mother in Ukraine:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do hope that the mother of the Russian contract soldier Ageev and Russian journalists will reveal to the citizens of the Russian Federation the whole truth about the direct participation of the regular troops, career and contract servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces in the war in Donbas. This is in the best interest of the Russians themselves to stop the traffic of zinc coffins of the Russian mercenaries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ageev also confirmed that he was an active serviceman of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a soldier. Military unit 65246 (the communications regiment and training center of the Russian Air Force, Novocherkassk).<\/em><\/p>\n

The mother of Ageev, his friends and former colleagues also confirmed to\u00a0BBC Russian<\/a> that after a mandatory draft Ageev continued his military service and signed a contract in March 2017.<\/p>\n

InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community made its own investigation into the case of Ageev, and has a its disposal photo and video evidence from the this Russian serviceman\u2019s social profile. Russian intelligence agencies started to hastily clean up Ageev\u2019s social media presence after he had been captured near the village of Zholobok in Luhansk Oblast on June 24, 2017. They immediately changed the name on his VK account from Viktor Ageev to Vitaly Popov as well as his e-mail and phone number settings. They also changed the date of birth from September 13, 1995 to August 13, 1980, deleted several photos. Luckily, InformNapalm volunteers managed to make a video record of the original information recovered from the cache memory of the Russian search engine Yandex.<\/p>\n