Personal Information
- Birth date
- 15 мар. 1976 г. (50 years old)
- Special circumstances
- Ukrainian citizen, military servicemember, illness
- Notes
- Served in the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade since 1996 and lived near its location in Transcarpathia. Fought since 2014, received concussions and combat awards, was captured near Shirokino. His mother Maria Dmitrievna lives in the Rivne region and is waiting for her son. After the torture he endured in Makiyivka Correctional Colony No. 32 in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast, mental instability developed: emaciated, lost a lot of weight, after a concussion his mental state is unstable, nervous breakdowns occur in stressful situations.
Mironchuk Igor Vasilevich (Mironchuk Igor Vasilovich)
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Donetsk Oblast
- Detention date:
- 9 февр. 2019 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 232 CC DPR
- Sentence:
- 12 years strict regime
- Estimated release date:
- 15 авг. 2025 г.
- Case categories:
- War-related, Occupied territories, POWs, Espionage
Case Description
On February 9, 2019, near the village of Shirokino in the occupied Donetsk region, Igor Mironchuk, a serviceman of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was taken prisoner by Russian military personnel. Later, a criminal case was opened against him for espionage (under the Criminal Code article of the "DPR"). The details of the charges are unknown. The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic found Igor Mironchuk guilty and sentenced him to 12 years in a strict regime colony. The date of the verdict is unknown. No information about the appeal is available. In August 2025, Mironchuk was released during the next exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine.
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