“I got out from the forest, where my kidnappers

brought and left me, I’m in a good mood, without mobile phone and in average

condition,” Lutsenko wrote about his condition.

The activist said that 10 men abducted him and Verbytsky. They were kidnapped in Oleksandrivska Hospital

in Kyiv, where Verbytsky was seeking treatment for an eye injury suffered in a

clash with police.

“About

10 of them came in and dragged us into a bus in front of the eyes of a woman

doctor.”

Their abductors drove them through the forest

and put them into two separate cells in a building that looked like an

abandoned garage and left for about 10 hours.

Lutsenko didn’t give the details about either

his abductors or their talks saying only:

“I noticed they were not just the hired people,

they are truly ideological en masse,” Lutsenko wrote. “Though the talks were

not easy, I think that many (of them) understood something about Maidan and

about my personal point.”

After the talks, the kidnappers took the

activist to the forest, forced stand on his knees with a package on his head

put against a pine tree and demanded to pray, which made him think they were

planning to kill him. “When I was saying prayer my companions disappeared. I

even didn’t hear when it happened,” he wrote.

So Lutsenko walked through the forest, “almost

fainting” sometimes. He didn’t write about the happened to Verbytsky.

Lutsenko was treated in Borys clinic in

Kyiv.

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Kyiv Post staff writer Oksana Grytsenko can be reached at grytsenko@kyivpost.com