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Vasily Soroka
Sailors
1991-04-11
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Kerch
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On 25 November 2018, detained when Russian ships blocked Ukrainian vessels in the Black Sea near Crimea, and was wounded in the shelling. On 27 November taken into custody on charges of illegally crossing the Russian border, transferred to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center hospital on 29 November, and transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in January 2019. On 7 September 2019, he was released as part of the exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation for a group of people released by Ukraine and arrived on the territory of Ukraine.
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