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Yuliy Mamchur who was first kidnapped and then put into jail in
Sevastopol yesterday, March 22,2014, is now freed. This was reported by
Mayor Valeriy Pykovets, one of the officers of the military base in
Belbek. The current location is, however, unknown.
Source: 5.ua
On 3/22/2014 11:36 PM, Anubis wrote:
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> Russian troops with armoured vehicles stormed the Belbek airbase
> outside Sevastopol on Saturday, taking the base's commander Yuliy
> Mamchur prisoner. At least one Ukrainian soldier and a journalist were
> injured, with the latter's video footage of the aggression destroyed
> by pro-Russian vigilantes. Mamchur's wife later told ABC News that
> Mamchur had managed to phone her and say that he had been arrested,
> and was being taken to the military prison in Sevastopol.
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> Yuliy Mamchurbecame wildly known both in Ukraine and beyond back at
> the beginning of the Russian invasion when the Kremlin was still
> denying that the troops crowding into the Crimea were Russian. On
> March 3, he led his men, unarmed, towards the main part of the airbase
> which had been seized by heavily armed Russian troops. They were
> demanding that the airbase be freed and their unit able to resume
> work. The situation, seen
> herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmhRG6-6BgQwas enormously tense
> with the rifle-brandishing Russian soldiers obviously stressed. They
> fired warning shots into the air and at the men's legs, but the
> soldiers did not stop.
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> Mamchur's bravery, seen as he halted his soldiers but kept walking
> himself, made him a hero for very many Ukrainians. He remains so, but
> the events on Saturday have highlighted the hopeless situation
> Ukrainian soldiers military who have refused to surrender and break
> their oath of allegiance are in and the profound frustration they are
> experiencing. The Russian soldiers issued an ultimatum before storming
> that the Ukrainians leave the unit. Mamchur's response was that he
> could not order his men to do so without the relevant instructions
> from Kyiv which he had not received. The occupying troops reportedly
> retorted that his leadership was far away, and that he would cause his
> men's death. It was at this point that the video camera filming the
> negotiations between Mamchur and the Russians was deliberately
> damaged.http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1395535549
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