Polish citizen Krzysztof Galos died in 2023 in SIZO-2 in Taganrog. For a long time, the Russian authorities did not report his death, but the Russian Foreign Ministry recently confirmed the information. Gazeta Wyborcza writes about this.
Krzysztof Galos, photo: “Vot Tak”
According to the publication, Krakow resident Krzysztof Galos traveled to Ukraine in April 2023 because he wanted to “see what was happening there.” He first stayed in the areas of Odesa and Kherson that were under Ukrainian control.
Later, the Pole told Ukrainian soldiers that he wanted to get to occupied Enerhodar because a girl was allegedly waiting for him there. The military did not allow him to continue, but he managed to reach Enerhodar on his own. Some time later, he was detained by Russian security forces.
According to Slidstvo.info, Galos was taken to SIZO-2 in Taganrog. Ukrainian soldiers who were imprisoned there said the Pole was tortured. This information was also confirmed by the human rights organization Memorial.
One Ukrainian serviceman told the outlet “Vot Tak” that Galos was once brutally beaten with sticks and kicked after he looked out the cell window and saw security forces without balaclavas in the inner yard of the detention center. Presumably, this may have caused his death.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, for its part, said that Polish citizen Krzysztof Galos died of natural causes due to “cardiomyopathy of unspecified etiology, which led to the development of cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, and acute cardiovascular failure.” The Pole was buried in Taganrog in July 2023.
The same detention center also held the deceased 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna. She was taken captive in August 2023 when she went to prepare reports from the occupied territories. FSIN employees also used torture against her.