Martyred: father and son butchered
Persecuted church agency Release International has announced that the bodies of Ukrainian Evangelical church leader Anatoliy Prokopchuk (52) and his 19-year-old son Oleksandr have been discovered in a forest.
Iain Taylor
They had been tortured and killed, four days after being abducted by Russian soldiers. According to the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and the Global Investigative Journalism Network, father and son were taken whilst they were working in their garage, close to Kherson. The reasons for their abduction are not known.
