Victim of criminal actions of SBU, Anastasiya Kovalenko

Native of Lugansk, Anastasiya Kovalenko, was taken to Ukrainian SBU (Security Service of Ukraine). She met in Kiev a man and she liked him. They started communicating and one day he made an appointment, and she was arrested at that place by workers of SBU in a very cruel way.

It happened on 17^th December at 13.00 pm. This slim girl was subjected to the cruelest tortures! She was severely beaten, she they threatened to cut her fingers, etc. All this happened in the dungeons of SBU in Kiev. She got the investigator only after hospital, she wasput in a neck brace!

Her arrest was on the 18^th December at 8.30 pm. The first interrogations were without a lawyer. Initial inspection of her things was conducted without her presence, and an explosive device was found in her bag that moment. And now she is accused of attempting terrorist act organization.

It became known from reliable resources that SBU purposefully fabricated a case for promotion of danger from the side for dwellers from Donbass, accusing them of a terrorist threat against Ukraine and discharge tensions with the Russian Federation.

Anastasiya Kovalenko is in the Kiev pretrial isolator. Her retired mother and a small son are in Lugansk. She does not have person to wait for help from. The state (Ukraine) chose a lawyer for her.

Story of a mother of Anastasiya, Elena Zaharova

‘My daughter, Kovalenko Anastasiya is in a war prison of SBU since December 2014. My girl was taken in Kiev in regard to the fabricated case. She was tortured; she was beaten by criminals from battalion ‘Azov’. It is not clear how they occurred in the building of SBU.

My girl got numerous injures, serious trauma of a spinal. They even tried to cut her fingers.

She spent 3 month in a camera, alone. They do not still want to exchange my daughter. They say that my daughter prepared terroristic action against Poroshenko’s administration’, Nasty’as mother said.

Translated by Nataliya Sinyavskaya

To be continued…