40 months in an unknown locationThe field is the only thing that is known Spanish Mariano Garcia Kalatayudwho was arrested by the Russians in 2022, when I was in UkraineThe field everything happened just a few weeks after The beginning of the invasion of the army of Vladimir Putin to Ukrainian territories.
Mariano Garcia Kalatayud is a Spanish volunteer, and he is 77 years old.I went to the field to stay in Ukraine in 2014. After The revolution of the Maidan And his great protests in Plaza de la independencia de kyiv. “I came to Ukraine because I am studying the project and how you live here now. I liked to help people all my life“He said the media at that time. Because He arrived in Ukraine asvolunteerField
Since then, his life has been focused on Distribute food and help civilians in war zonesThe field is actually, he is a firm idealist who was present, and on the front line in all protests. First of all, in which they were held against Occupation of the Russian army of the region JersinThe field is so much that it was there that it was arrested.
“Three years later, none of the lawyers we hired was able to get access to him”The complaint of Oleen Lashtov, a friend of the missing Spanish. It is known that he entered the dungeon of Jerson after his arrest. A year later, in 2023, the Russian authorities assured that it was Transferred to CrimeaField
Missing and tortured
Calatayud was tortured with electric blows, physical blows, and even with Hungry bites of the dogThis condemned the field Amnesty Internationalwho came to send a letter to the Kremlin to demand release “A citizen of Spain, who was carried out in non -compliance mode” “The field but Russia is still silent.
“They say that this can be in one of these“ unrecognized republics or that it can be in Moscow, ”says Olena. Russia does not respond to the requests of an amnesty of the international, nor about the Red Cross, or the Spanish government. They treat him as if it were a more military prisonerField