Ilia Iashin, Russian Opponent: "If Ukraine Is Given to Putin, It Will Be a Tragedy, Prologue of a Global Confrontation"

The former municipal elected, who was imprisoned for opposing the war in Ukraine, is due to be received on Tuesday in the Elysée and the Quai d'Orsay. He who found refuge in Berlin urges, in an interview with the "World", the Westerners to continue their support in Kiev, the only way according to him to help the Russian democratic opposition.

The Russian political opponent Ilia Iashin, in Berlin, on November 17, 2024. NIKITA MOURAVIEFF Figure of the liberal opposition to Vladimir Putin since the 2000s, 41-year-old Ilia Iashin was elected municipal in Moscow when he was arrested in June 2022, then sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in December 2022, for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and denouncing the crimes committed against Ukrainian civilians in Boucha, near K…