The administration of IK No. 4 in the city of Puhachоv, where Volodymyr is illegally detained, is preparing for an important inspection from Moscow. On May 13, Yakymenko was summoned to the colony management commission and asked why he didn’t not go to work, despite the fact that his documents showed that he had been working for 2 months.‍

‍“My husband was shocked. He never worked a single day, always categorically refused to do it, never gave his consent and never signed any documents,” writes Alona.

Right after the conversation, he was placed in SHIZO, released the next day, but told to appear before the commission again on May 17. The content of Yakymenko’s conversation with the administration is unknown, but it was after it that Volodymyr was transferred to SHIZO for a long time. Alona thinks that due to Yakymenko’s disobedience, he further will be transferred to the SCD (rus. “strict conditions of detention”).

Volodymyr systematically suffers from oppression in the colony. At the beginning of this year, he was reprimanded for refusing to work for the aggressor country, and placed in SHIZO for 5 and 10 days several times for this. He was repeatedly forced to sign a renunciation of his Ukrainian citizenship and there were attempts to recruit him to the ranks of combat units of the russian army.

As a reminder, Volodymyr Yakymenko is a taxi driver and AutoMaidan activist from the village of Chaplynka, Kherson region. After 2014, he was engaged in volunteer activities and helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as transported Crimeans who left the peninsula during the occupation. On June 11, 2017, when Yakymenko was crossing the border with the ARC once again, he was detained by russian security forces. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison.