“Ivan Zabavsky was arrested in June 2023”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
Zabavsky was arrested in June 2023. The man lived in Kharkiv and worked in a cafe with Shaurma. His mother Marina Zabavska after the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine remained in the village of Tavilzhanka, Kupyansk district in Kharkiv region.
In September, Marina’s sister was killed during the shelling. Russian troops approached the village, and the woman decided to go to Russia. There was no connection in Tavilzhanka, Ivan could not find his mother. Then he decided to go to Tavilzhanka as a driver with a load of humanitarian aid – other cars were not missed to the frontline. He has disappeared since then, and the village has been under Russian occupation. The neighbors spoke Marina Zabavskaya, who saw her son taken away by the Russian military.
It was not until May 2023 that the Russian Ministry of Defense responded to Zabavskaya that her son was in Russia and was detained “for the opposition of a special military operation.” This wording is often recorded in the correspondence of the Russian military with native civilians from Ukraine.
The court began to consider the case of Zabavsky under the article on espionage only in the summer of 2024. The process was in closed mode, the details of the accusation are unknown. In the debate, the prosecutor requested to condemn the Ukrainian up to 13 years in prison.