Occupants kidnap former Ukrainian navy sailor in Crimea

Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariev reported another case of enforced disappearance of a person on the temporarily occupied peninsula.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

According to him, on October 2, 2025, in the village of Kyzyltash (occupation name - Krasnokamenka), Feodosia district, unidentified persons abducted 63-year-old Marat Batyrov. Witnesses said that the man was forcibly taken out of his apartment, then brought to his garage and taken in an unknown direction.

Since then, his relatives and friends have no information about his whereabouts. According to Bariiev, the so-called 'law enforcement agencies' of Crimea officially declare that Batyrov is not in any of the peninsula's pre-trial detention centers. The written lawyer's requests for his search to the occupation police of Feodosia and the 'Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea' have not been answered either.

''The occupiers continue the practice of forcibly holding people incommunicado - hiding them in closed boxes in pre-trial detention centers, basements and operational apartments, torturing them and extracting the necessary testimony,'' Bariiev emphasized.

According to his relatives, Marat Batyrov was born and lived in Kyzyltash all his life. He served in the Marines, and after retirement, he planned to live peacefully in his native village.

Earlier, two Ukrainian teenagers from Melitopol and Nova Kakhovka told how they survived abduction and torture by the Russian occupiers. Their stories show what children in Russian captivity had to go through. In April 2022, 16-year-old Vladyslav Buriak from occupied Melitopol was stopped by the Russian military at a checkpoint in Vasylivka. The boy was dragged out of his car at gunpoint and placed in a cramped three-by-two-meter cell with more than 30 other people.

"I saw a man hanging from the ceiling with a bucket of blood under him. His face was so broken that it was impossible to recognize him," Vladyslav recalled.

"Although he was not tortured, he was forced to clean the torture chambers after the torture. One of his cellmates committed suicide after two days of abuse.

On July 7, 2022, Vladyslav was transported from Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia, where he met his father. He was unable to show emotion then. Today he is 20 years old and lives in the UK with his mother and sister.

Катерина Глушко