Lubinets revealed how they found out about this – UNIAN
Information about Matveev’s death was unexpected.
Russia did not inform Ukraine about the death in captivity of the mayor of the temporarily occupied city of Dneprorudnoye, Zaporozhye region, Evgeniy Matveev.
As Ukrinform writes, Verkhovna Rada's plenipotentiary for human rights, Dmitry Lubinets, told a briefing that the death of the mayor became known during the identification of the bodies.
“This was a surprise for me. Because by that time we had information that he was in captivity. As far as I remember, he remained at VOT, the Russians detained a group of employees of a utility company, and he himself went to personally free them, they were all released, and he was detained. After that there was official confirmation that he was in Russian captivity and for us it became absolute…
