Donbas.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Before his arrest, the ex-warden of a grim prison in separatist-held Donetsk had been living quietly in Kyiv for two years. According to three former Ukrainian security officers, Denys Kulykovskiy had relocated to Kyiv in 2019 after he began cooperating on a counterintelligence operation.
