Ex-prisoner Izolyatsia prison tells how ex-intelligence officer helped him find in Kyiv Palych, main executioner of prison

Ex-intelligence officer Roman Chervinskyi, who is now arrested and suspected of abuse of office in the case of the Russian missile attack on the Kanatove airfield, once helped Stanislav Asieiev, an ex-prisoner of the Izolyatsia prison, establish the location in Kyiv of the main executioner of this prison, Denys Kulykovskyi (aka Palych), who fled from occupied Donetsk to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

Source: Stanislav Asieiev, a journalist, writer and former prisoner of Izolyatsia prison, in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda

Quote from Asieiev: "I didn't know about this (about Kulykovskyi's stay in Kyiv – Ukrainska Pravda), and when I found out, I called Christo Grozev, my friend from Bellingcat, and asked him to try to confirm this information. He contacted Roman Chervinskyi, and he said that: "Yes, indeed, we used him for a certain time. Then I was suspended, and other people were dealing with him. I do not know where he is now." 

We started unwinding this story, and just a month later we reached an informant who knew the address of Palych in Kyiv and was ready to actually sell it to us. We found the money (it was also Roman who did all this; he actually found this amount of money), but the Security Service found out that we knew that Kulykovskyi was in Kyiv and that the police were going to arrest him, and they quickly found our informant and forced him to give this address to them."

Details: Denys Kulykovsky (Palych), the main war criminal of the Donetsk militant prison of Izolyatsia, was detained in Kyiv on 9 November 2021. 

In October 2020, the militant was served a notice of suspicion in absentia and put on the wanted list. Police operatives and investigators obtained evidence of Palych's crimes. He personally and his accomplices conducted interrogations of prisoners using torture: they tortured them with electric shocks, raped them, broke their bones, simulated executions and buried them with nails in the coffin.

On 21 April 2023, Roman Chervinskyi, the former acting commander of one of the units of the Special Operation Forces, was charged under the article of the Criminal Code with "abuse of power or official authority by a military official" in the case of Russia's missile attack on the Kanatove airfield.

According to the case file, Chervinskyi, along with other persons, arbitrarily decided to conduct a so-called "special operation" – to take possession of an aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The Russian pilot allegedly agreed to the offer to go over to the side of Ukraine. But in the summer of 2022, Russia shelled the Kanatove airfield in Kirovohrad Oblast.

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