Georgy Suturin was detained in Thailand: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded about the fate of the Ukrainian

Diplomats are involved in the case of a Ukrainian in Thailand/Collage 24 Channel (Photo from open sources)< p _ngcontent-sc90 class="news-annotation">The media spread information that diplomats abandoned a Ukrainian to his fate in Thailand. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured that they are aware of Georgiy Suturin, who is in a migration facility in a foreign country.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Bangkok is looking into the case Ukrainian from the first days of his detention due to his illegal stay in Thailand for two years without passport documents. Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oleg Nikolenko spoke about this in a commentary to Channel 24.

Diplomats are working on the case of a Ukrainian in Thailand

Oleg Nikolenko assured that the information that Ukrainian diplomats allegedly abandoned a Ukrainian to his fate in Thailand is not true.

We are talking about Georgy Suturin, whom the leader of the Bi-2 group spoke about.

According to the representative, during the time when the Ukrainian was detained, our consuls repeatedly visited and also maintained telephone contact with our citizen, providing him with explanations about the legal ways of returning to Ukraine. According to available information, the compatriot initially planned to remain on the territory of Thailand.

“Now the Ukrainian citizen has expressed a desire to return to his homeland,” said a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

So, the Ukrainian Embassy issues the man the necessary Ukrainian travel documents, and also negotiates payment for the air ticket.

At the initiative of the diplomats, the compatriot also underwent a medical examination . As the Foreign Ministry speaker noted, the man’s health is satisfactory, he is provided with clothing and basic necessities.

What is known about the citizen detained in Thailand Ukraine

Musician of the group “Bi-2” Gleb Kolyadin and other members of the group were recently arrested and kept in prison in Thailand due to lack of a work visa. He said that in Bangkok the musicians at the migration center met the Ukrainian Georgy Suturin, who has been there for three years.

According to him, during these three years, none of the The Ukrainian consulate never came to see him. The musician said that the man is 58 years old and over the past three years he has lost contact with his son. As the man noted, Suturin got there before the pandemic, lived there all this time and two years of the war.

“He doesn’t know what happened to Bucha, he doesn’t know, what happened to Mariupol. He only knows that there is complete darkness in the world – and from the words of people who end up in this prison. And most importantly, he does not know whether his son is alive or not and what is happening to him. He really wants to return to his homeland. I sincerely feel sorry for him, and I really want to help him,” said Kolyadin.