Two Jews tortured by Ukraine rebels land in Israel

2015/7/6 17:16:20

<Photo: Roman Makria and Sasha Malinka arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport on July 1, part of an exodus of Jews escaping the chaos of the Russian-financed invasion of Ukraine’s eastern provinces.

 


By Sam Sokol for the Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2015

 

Over three-quarters of Donetsk’s pre-war Jewish population of between 10,000 and 11,000 have fled the city since fighting broke out last year.

 

Two Jewish escapees from eastern Ukraine who say that they underwent interrogation and even torture at the hands of Moscow-backed separatists landed in Israel on Wednesday, joining the more than 7,000 Ukrainian refugees who have come here since their country descended into civil war* last year.

 

One of the 89 new immigrants who arrived on Wednesday’s flight – which was sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews – was Roman Makria, 25, a lawyer from the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. A government worker, Makria was kidnapped from his office and interrogated by the separatists, who accused him of espionage.

 

“In Donetsk, I worked as a lawyer in the district attorney’s office,” he said in a statement.

 

“In May 2014, a couple of thugs came to our offices and took me away. They interrogated me over the course of two days, all the while threatening to kill me, and then let me go. [Afterward,] I got fired from work because they didn’t want to be involved with all this and the thugs had told them I was a spy.

 

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Two- ... els-land-in-Israel-407750

 

*Editor’s Note: We would remind the Jerusalem Post that talk about a “civil war” in Ukraine is incorrect. The lawful government of Ukraine is fighting an outright invasion by Russian and pro-Russian dissidents, all financed by the criminal Putin regime in Russia.

 

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