17-year-old Russian girl allegedly forced to help Russia’s FSB kidnap Ukrainian citizen
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) lured Pavel Gryb, the 19-year-old son of the Ukrainian chaplain, into Belarus with the help of a Russian girl.
The journalists of Ukraine’s TV station TSN found the girl social media profile and contacted her. The 17-year-old resident of Sochi admitted that she had invited Pavel Gryb to Belarus. According to the girl, FSB officers forced her to give up the acquaintance, since she was also under investigation. The girl is allegedly suspected of terrorist activities.
“They sent me to Belarus by blackmail. We raised such topics as nationalism or something like that. The case was initiated against me because of an online conversation with him and then… but I am not allowed to tell you about that, because I signed a non-disclosure agreement,” she said.
Pavel is not on the list of the detainees kept in Belarusian prisons, Consul of Ukraine in Minsk has stated.
On August 24, the young man arrived in Homiel to meet with a Russian girl he had got acquainted earlier on the Internet. Pavel did not return to Ukraine.
Belarusian border guards told his father Igor Gryb that they did not hold any information about the whereabouts of his son. At the same time, Mr Gryb states that Homiel policemen unofficially informed him of his son’s being on the black list of the FSB.
