Foreign language teacher from Russia-occupied Crimea Yuriy Ilchenko, who was detained by the occupying authorities for his pro-Ukrainian patriotic position, miraculously escaped from the peninsula and has shared details of his getaway, according to the Ukrainian TV news service TSN.ua.
Ilchenko first spent 11 months in prison and was then placed under house arrest, which is when he decided to flee. Russia had accused him of inciting ethnic hatred and instigating terrorist acts, and one of the counts was a reposting of the then leader of the Right Sector Dmytro Yarosh’s article with a suggestion to cut off gas supplies to Russia’s Rostov region, TSN.ua wrote.
