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Dmytriuk Vasyl Anatoliiovych

Date of birth: October 11, 1977 (49 years old)
citizenship: Украина
City of residence: Мариуполь
Occupation: военная служба
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  May 17, 2022
Sentence:  17 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 3 года в тюрьме
Date of sentencing:  June 10, 2024
Current location:  Prison of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Chelyabinsk Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Ukrainian serviceman Vasyl Dmytriuk, who was taken prisoner in Mariupol, has been sentenced to 17 years on charges of seizing a vessel and abducting its crew. A Russian court classified Dmytriuk’s actions from 2018—when, while serving with the Ukrainian Border Guard, he brought a fishing seiner and its crew to a Ukrainian port—as a crime; the vessel had been operating in disputed waters of the Sea of ​​Azov, carrying documentation issued in occupied Crimea.