“Recently, the Ukrainian military power – a soldier of the 36th Marine Infantry Brigade – said that in early May 2025 he saw UNIAN correspondent Dmitry Khiluk, abducted by the Russians more than three years ago, in the correctional colony # 7 in the village of Pakkin of Vladimir.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “Reporters without borders” (RSF)
Details: In an interview with RSF, Vlad said that he accidentally met Khiluk in the corridor of the colony – he probably went to the medical center. There were no visible beating traces, but the journalist’s condition caused serious concern.
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The authorities were captured in the first weeks of a full -scale invasion, and in October 2022 it was transferred to colony # 7 in Pakino. According to RSF, Dmitry Khiluk was brought there in May 2023. In August of that year, they spent a day in the same chamber. On that day, the journalist did not say a word.
According to Vlad, the camera # 8, in which Khiluk was held, is located in the third – the strictest block. There, according to the former prisoners, Ukrainian military and civilians are systematically beating and starving.
One of the former prisoners, who spent a year in the camera with Khiluk, told RSF that the journalist was not recognized – he weighed no more than 45 kg. Vlad also considers this assessment relevant.
“After three years in Russian prisons, Dmitry Khiluk is still mocking and deprivation. Despite the exchanges of prisoners between countries, it is unclear why a journalist with chronic exhaustion is still in prison. We demand his immediate and unconditional release until it was too late,” said Arno.
According to the authorities, the conditions of detention in the colony improved a little at the end of 2024 after a visit of a delegation headed by the Russian Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova. But already in 2025 the situation worsened again-nutrition became even worse, access to medical care-limited, in particular due to regular scabies.
According to RSF estimates, about 300 Ukrainians can still be in the colony. In total, at least 29 Ukrainian journalists are kept in Russia.
Know more: “Victoria Project.
Recall:
- The occupation troops were abducted by Khiluk on March 3, 2022 near their own house in the village of Kozarovichi in Kyiv region. He was then taken out through the territory of Belarus in Novozibkiv, Bryansk region, where most of the citizens who were captured in the Kiev region during the occupation were taken out.
- On July 9, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets reported that Ukraine has unofficial data on the place of stay of the UNIAN information agency abducted by Russian military correspondent by UNIAN Khiluk.
- In April 2025, Ukrainian journalists and mediamen called on the power to exchange the detainee of the Russian agent “Politexpert” from the pool of the godfather of Russian ruler Viktor Medvedchuk propagandist Kirill Molchanov on Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Khiluk, who has been in Russian captivity for over three years.