21:59, 24.12.20 Ukraine 547 Updated
He was abducted by Russian special services in Kherson region on the administrative border with Russia-occupied Crimea in 2017.
Shumkov is now free / Photo from facebook.com/denisovaombudsman
Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Shumkov, who has been in illegal detention in Russia since August 2017, has returned to Ukraine.
Ukraine s Verkhovna Rada Ombudsperson Liudmyla Denisova announced this on Telegram on December 24. Ukrainian political prisoner and serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shumkov is now free! For more than three years, he has been in illegal detention in a correctional colony in the town of Torzhok, Tver region [in Russia]. Almost during the entire term of his imprisonment, he was kept in a punishment cell and a detachment with strict conditions of detention, she said.