“The lattice was later reported that as of 19:25 Andrei Kolomiyts was released from the shopping center after checking the documents, and now he is heading home”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The media already has information that the political prisoner Andriy Kolomiets returned to Ukraine. He really crossed our border, but then he was immediately taken to the shopping center. Andriy has the decision of the commission and documents that he was deprived of personal freedom as a result of aggression against Ukraine. Thus, Andrew belongs to the category of persons entitled to deferral in accordance with Art. 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On Mobilization Training and Mobilization”, – said Olga Skrypnyk, Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Human Rights Group.
She expressed the hope that the situation would be resolved, and Andrei Kolomiets “will be able to see her parents after 10.5 years of illegal imprisonment.”
The lattice was later informed that as of 19:25: Andrei Kolomiytsa was released from the shopping center after checking the documents, and now he is heading home. Anna Skrypka, a lawyer of the organization “Protection of Ukraine”, told the publication in the Crimean Human Rights Group.
The Kolomiets returned to Ukraine after Russian imprisonment “for politicized, false accusations,” the Foreign Ministry reported today.
In June 2016, Ukrainian activist Euromaidan Andriy Kolomiyts was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a strict regime colony in occupied Crimea.
He was detained in the Russian Kabardno-Balkaria in May 2015 on suspicion of drug storage, brought to the Crimea and accused of assassination for the murder of two Crimean employees of the special unit “Berkut”. According to the lawyer of Kolomiyts, the prosecution was only two black and white photos of the allegedly burned form of security forces.
In April 2017, Andriy Kolomiets filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. The Russian human rights organization “Memorial” recognized the Kolomiets as a political prisoner.
On January 15, 2025, the Kolomiets left the colony in the Russian Krasnodar. Immediately afterwards, he was detained and transferred to the Center for temporary maintenance of foreign nationals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on July 7, Russia deported the Kolomiets, it was taken to the border with Georgia, where it was kept for several days.