FREE OVCHARENKO AND AKHMEROV - TWO 20-YEAR-OLD PATRIOTS WERE SENTENCED IN OCCUPIED LUHANSK

The terrorist controlled court in the occupied Luhansk has sentenced two young Ukrainian patriots - Vladyslav Ovcharenko and Artem Akhmerov. The guys were sentenced to imprisonment for more than a dozen years: Vladislav got 17 years of strict regime and 13 years sentence has been appointed to Artem.

Vladislav Ovcharenko and Artem Akhmerov - both are known in their native Luhansk city as loyal patriots, members of the FC Zorya Luhansk ultras team -  were detained by the terrorists in the beginning of November 2016 in the occupied part of Luhansk Oblast and charged of "a state treason in the form of espionage" against the so-called "LNR" (article 335 of the Criminal Code of self-proclamed "republic"). 

On November 5, in the detainees' characteristic appeared an addition that they had supposedly been a member of the Azov regiment. Considering, that after years of having been processing by the Kremlin propaganda, an ordinary resident of the occupied territory experiencing a panic attack everytime he hear the notion of a Ukrainian nationalist military formation. Thus, a single mention of the Azov has blown up the topic in local, and then in Russian media. It is known that besides coercion to confirm the lie about the service in Azov, the terrorists forsed from them to made a "confession" on cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense, espionage and outrage over the flags and other symbols of the terrorist "republics." Almost a year the guys had waited for a sentence in the prisons of Luhansk oblast under strict supervision. Despite all tortures, the boys have remained loyal to their country, they did not admit guilty, and for that the terrorists sentenced them to 17 and 13 years of imprisonment.

It is also known that last year the Ukrainian side included Vladislav Ovcharenko to the hostages exchange list between Ukraine and the terrorists side, but Vladislav's relatives note that the case the young man's release has come to naught. Artem Akhmetov is in much difficult situation. He hasn't been included to the exchange list at all, since his relatives are of the so-called "Russian world" supporters, thus they concider Artme a traitor of the Kremlin-puppet republics. Hence, there is no one who could simply enter him to the list.

patriots of Ukraine. It proves - our enemyes are cynical and insidious, they consider detention and a court over to twenty-year-old guys to be their achievement and a great achievement of the "republic." We remember Vladislav and Artem, remember their sacrifice and admire their power of spirit.

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