On March 8, Volodymyr Ruban, a POW swap mediator and head of the Officer Corps organization, was detained at one of the checkpoints near the Russian-occupied city of Horlivka in the Donetks Oblast while trying to smuggle an entire arsenal of weapons and ammunition from Russian-occupied areas. According to charges filed by the Security Service of Ukraine, Ruban is accused of illegal firearms possession, preparing terror attacks, and attempted assassination of President Petro Poroshenko and the country’s top officials.
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A prisoner of war swap mediator Volodymyr Ruban listens to judicial pleadings at a Zhovtnevy Court in the city of Dnipro on Dec. 18, 2015.
