Arrested in St. Petersburg on a case of espionage turned out to be a Ukrainian who went to a Russian-occupied village to fetch his mother

In St. Petersburg in the case of espionage arrested 27-year-old Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky. On July 30, Mediazona found information about the arrest in the court file, and today it learned the details of the arrest from his mother Marina. «mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Article« Vanya followed you. A year ago, a Ukrainian went to save his mother from an occupied village near Kharkov, and now a court in St. Petersburg has arrested him as a spy

Zabavsky lived in Kharkov and worked in a cafe with shawarma and hot dogs, while his mother remained in the village of Tavolzhanka Kharkiv region, which in 2022 came under Russian occupation.

In September 2022, a woman decided to leave for Russia because of the upcoming fighting, and her son, who did not know about it, followed her to Tavolzhanka under the guise of a driver with humanitarian aid. Neighbors told Marina Zabavskaya that they saw him being taken away by the military.

Since then, she did not know what was happening to her son. In May 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense responded to her request and said that he «is in Russia» and was «detained for countering a special military operation.»

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Zaslavsky to a pre-trial detention center on June 22, mediazone was told in court. The mother was not informed about this, she learned about the arrest of her son from a journalist.