A Russian court has sentenced Oleksandr Shumkov to four years’ imprisonment, despite strong evidence that the 29-year-old Ukrainian was abducted to Russia and the totally surreal charges of involvement in ‘Right Sector’, a Ukrainian nationalist party while in Ukraine. During his final address to the court, Shumkov pointed out that he was charged with activities which he had never denied – of involvement in Euromaidan and then in Ukraine’s operation against the militants in Donbas. By bringing criminal charges based on the assertion that such activities “threatened Russia’s interests”, he said, “the Russian Federation is acknowledging its presence on Ukrainian territory”.
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Oleksandr Shumkov has become the latest Ukrainian to be abducted to Russia and imprisoned, human rights activists say.
