Dmitry Bodyu, an American pastor allegedly abducted in Ukraine earlier this month, has been freed, his family says.
earlier this month, has been freed, his family said on Monday.Bodyu, 50, a well-known pastor in Ukraine who had invited people to seek shelter in his church, was taken by about eight to 10 Russian soldiers in the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol on March 19, his wife Helen had told NBC News last week.
"They just came in in the morning," wife Helen Bodyu said."They took our phones, gadgets, computers, documents — and took him somewhere. I don’t know where," she said at the time.A Ukranian serviceman stands on top of a Russian tank captured after fighting in the village of Lukyanivka outside Kyiv on Sunday.
"Our intelligence reported possible provocations by the occupiers on the routes of humanitarian corridors. Therefore, for reasons of public safety, we do not open humanitarian corridors today," Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said via Telegram. Humanitarian corridors intended to help civilians escape the fighting have come under fire since the war began. Following several attacks on humanitarian corridors, Secretary General at Amnesty International Agnès Callamard has condemned the"deliberate targeting of civilians" during the conflict and called for all"unlawful attacks to cease."
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