Deputy commander of Russian Volunteer Corps has been released
Taras Borovskyi, the lawyer for Stepan Kaplunov, Deputy Commander for Combat Operations of the Russian Volunteer Corps , has said that the serviceman has been released, but his whereabouts are currently unknown.
Source: Borovskyi in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda
Quote: "Kaplunov has already been released, but I do not know where he is."
Details: Earlier, Borovskyi told RBC-Ukraine that he considered the claim by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) that it had foiled an attempt to assassinate the leader of a Russian opposition movement to be a "PR stunt" and insisted that Kaplunov had actually been abducted.
"The SSU press service is trying, as I understand it, to somehow cover up the unlawful detention and its employees' violation of all the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure… But we have accepted that this version of events may be acceptable to the public, and we will not make any further waves around this topic," Borovskyi said.
Background:
- On 1 September, the Russian Volunteer Corps said that Kaplunov had been abducted by unknown individuals in the courtyard of the building where he was living.
- On the morning of 2 September, reports spread on social media about a shootout said to be between Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) and the SSU in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi District, and that it was somehow connected to Kaplunov's disappearance. As of 10:00 this morning, Ukrainska Pravda reported that the standoff was still ongoing.
- Later, officers from the State Bureau of Investigation and the head of the SSU's Special Operations Centre Alpha arrived at the scene. According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, three DIU officers were injured in the confrontation.
- Meanwhile, the SSU said this morning that, together with DIU, it had foiled a terrorist attack against a leader of a Russian opposition political national movement who had arrived in Ukraine.
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