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Alexander Shumkov (Photo: Lyudmila Denisova via Telegram)
The Ukrainian political prisoner and military man of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Shumkov returned to Ukraine after more than three years in a colony in the Tver region. Ukraine Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova wrote about this.
Denisova clarified that Shumkov was released from the colony on December 23, then he was in the “temporary detention center for foreign nationals” in the Tver region. On the night of December 24, the Ukrainian crossed the border through the Bachevsk checkpoint. He was received by his relatives, representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office and the territorial bodies of the military administration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
«Today Alexander will go to Kherson to the military unit, where he served before being arrested, ”wrote the Ombudsman.
Alexander Shumkov did not return home after the service on August 17, 2017. On August 26, his mother, Larisa Shumkova, received a letter from the TFR headquarters in Bryansk stating that her son had been detained. in Russia. The Ukrainian said he was kidnapped and transported across the border while unconscious.
On December 4, 2018, a Russian court sentenced Alexander Shumkov to 4 years of general regime for participating in the organization. Right sector, which the Russian authorities consider extremist.
According to the prosecution, Shumkov was in the Right Sector from November 28, 2013 to August 23, 2017, and for a “long time” he was the guard of its then leader Dmitry Yarosh.
The Ukrainian served under a contract in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Chernobaevka, Belozersky district, Kherson region, lived in Kherson. He was an active participant in Euromaidan.
