The prosecution in Russia’s trial of 29-year-old Oleksandr Shumkov has finished presenting its ‘evidence’ against the young Ukrainian who was abducted to Russia to face charges of involvement on Ukrainian territory in a movement which is legal in Ukraine. As if this were not surreal enough, the prosecution witnesses have proven no more than what Shumkov himself does not deny – that he was, in 2014, a member of the right-wing and nationalist Right Sector, a movement which is legal in Ukraine, but which Russia has constantly demonized.
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Halya Coynash: Russia’s trial of abducted Ukrainian turns ever more surreal
Oleksandr Shumkov has become the latest Ukrainian to be abducted to Russia and imprisoned, human rights activists say.
