Soldier and human rights activist Maksym Butkevych released from Russian captivity
Pravda Ukraine
Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights activist and soldier, has been released from Russian captivity.
Source: ZMINA Human Rights Centre citing Butkevych’s father
Quote: “Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights activist, journalist, public figure and soldier, has been released from Russian captivity! This was reported by his father. We welcome the co-founder of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre home.”
Background:
- Butkevych, who was fighting in eastern Ukraine as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was captured by the Russians in the summer of 2022.
- In March 2023, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic “court” sentenced the human rights activist to 13 years in prison.
- Since the end of August 2023, neither his lawyer nor his parents had known anything about Butkevych’s whereabouts.
- Later it became known that he was in a colony in Krasnyi Luch in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast.
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