Personal Information
- Birth date
- 6 нояб. 1983 г. (42 years old)
- Special circumstances
- Ukrainian citizen, military servicemember, dependent child/children, elderly dependents, illness
- Notes
- A soldier of the 36th Marine Brigade, captured on May 2, 2018, lived in Nikolaev, before serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked at one of the Nikolaev plants, raised a son, after captivity the son was taken in by his grandmother (Vitaliy's mother), who has stage four oncology, suffers from severe headaches, but receives no medical help.
Chmil Vitaliy Anatolevich (Chmil Vitaliy Anatoliyovich)
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Donetsk Oblast
- Detention date:
- 2 мая 2018 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 232 CC DPR, Art. 323 CC DPR
- Sentence:
- 17 years strict regime
- Estimated release date:
- 1 мая 2035 г.
- Case categories:
- Occupied territories, POWs
Case Description
On May 2, 2018, in the Donetsk region, Vitaliy Chmil, a citizen of Ukraine and a soldier of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was captured by the separatists of the DNR. For several months he was listed as missing. Later, Vitaly appeared in several pro-Russian propaganda videos. He was able to contact his mother and told her that he was kept in a basement with rats and tortured. Charges were brought against Chmily under the DNR code for undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities and forcibly seizing power. The details of the charges are unknown. No later than autumn 2018 (the exact date is unknown), the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic found Vitaly Chmila guilty and sentenced him to 17 years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony. There is also no information about appealing the verdict.
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Чмиль Виталий Анатольевич (Чміль Віталій Анатолійович), 6 ноября 1983 г. ФКУ ИК-2 ГУФСИН России по Донецкой Народной Республике, адрес: 286145, Донецкая Народная Республика, г. Макеевка, ул. Кирова, д. 141
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