1. Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer and journalist, human rights activist, and founder of the Justice Initiative Fund.
20 Facts About Stanislav Aseyev
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From 2015 through 2017 Aseyev published his reports for the Mirror Weekly newspaper and other Ukrainian media.
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Stanislav Aseyev was released as part of a prisoner exchange and handed over to Ukrainian authorities on 29 December 2019.
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Stanislav Aseyev had stayed in Donetsk after it was captured by pro-Russian militants in 2014.
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Stanislav Aseyev described the war in Donbass and his life under occupation in his novel and journalistic reports.
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Stanislav Aseyev used the pseudonym due to widespread persecutions by the Ministry of State Security and different militants' groups of the self-proclaimed DPR.
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Stanislav Aseyev's reports exposing crimes in the DPR consisted of reports of war crimes of the Republic's militants, Russian activities in Donbass, and pro-Ukrainian resistance.
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Stanislav Aseyev's mother visited his apartment and saw traces of illegal entry and search.
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In July 2018, Stanislav Aseyev reportedly began a hunger strike while being imprisoned.
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On 29 January 2020, Stanislav Aseyev delivered a speech at the Council of Europe in which he asked the member states to put pressure on Russia to release the captives.
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On 14 February 2020, Stanislav Aseyev met with a group of US senators at Radio Liberty's Prague office to discuss the release of the remaining captives in the occupied territories of Donetsk region.
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One and a half years after his release from Izolyatsia prison, Stanislav Aseyev found out that the chief commandant of the prison - Denis Kulikovsky aka Palych - was living freely in Kyiv.
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Together with Christo Grozev and retired Ukrainian special services colonel Roman Chervinsky, Stanislav Aseyev conducted an investigation that led to the discovery of Palych's address in Kyiv and his arrest by the Security Service of Ukraine.
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In 2023, Stanislav Aseyev joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as an infantryman.
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In 2024, Stanislav Aseyev received a contusion during the fighting in Donbas and underwent rehabilitation in a hospital, after which he returned to the front.
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Two months later, Stanislav Aseyev again received a more severe mine-shrapnel wound to his neck and chest, after which he again ended up in the hospital.
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Stanislav Aseyev was awarded of the Brigade Cross for his service.
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Stanislav Aseyev became the first Ukrainian journalist to report from the Sednaya death camp in Syria.
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Stanislav Aseyev arrived in Damascus accompanied by officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate, who were engaged in the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from Syria.
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Stanislav Aseyev then went to Sednaya prison and made a photo report from there, becoming the first Ukrainian to talk about the horrors of the prison under Bashar al-Assad in the national media.