#Poland media report that Krzysztof Galos, a Polish man from Krakow, was killed in a #Russia detention center in #Taganrog in 2022, but the family only learned about his fate now. The man was not involved in politics or the war in any way. His relatives say:
My uncle had no connection to Ukraine. He didn’t know anyone there. He denied the whole time that there was a real war going on there.
Mr. Galos went to #Ukraine on vacation to see what was happening there. His car was last recorded by a surveillance camera near the Ukrainian power plant in #Zaporizhzhia. The Polish man turned the wrong way and drove right into a Russian military checkpoint.
His last message the man sent to his family on 19 April 2023:
I can’t answer. Everything’s fine. I love you.
Since then, there has been no contact with him.
Memorial, an independent Russian human rights organization, obtained information that the guards were ruthless towards the Polish man, regularly beating and torturing him:
His legs were completely bruised, they stopped functioning, and he soon died.
The information was reportedly provided by another prisoner in Taganrog.
Source: https://wyborcza.pl/7,75399,32469442,nie-moge-odebrac-kocham-cie-rozmawiamy-z-rodzina-polaka.html (in Polish, paywalled)