Two months after Roman Sushchenko, Paris correspondent for Ukraine’s information agency Ukrinform was seized in Moscow while visiting relatives, his son Maxim has made a brief and moving appeal. He explains that the Ukrainian journalist is his Papa, and asks that those “on whom this depends” let him go so that he can come home to Maxim and his mother.
47-year-old Roman Sushchenko has been working for Ukrinform since 2003, and has been the agency’s French correspondent since 2010. Russia has accused him of ‘spying’, and has forced his lawyer Mark Feygin to sign an undertaking not to divulge any information. Feygin was, however, able to provide one crucial piece of information, namely that there is nothing to divulge. He has now also spoken of a disk that Sushchenko was asked to take back to Paris for another journalist, and believes this to have been a deliberate trick by Russia’s FSB (security service).
