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‘He’s Back on Ukrainian Soil’ After Ten Years in Russian Captivity and Several Days in Basement Detention at the Georgian Border, Political Prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets Returns to Ukraine

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Euromaidan activist Andriy Kolomiyets, who was imprisoned in Russia for the past 10 years, is now a former political prisoner. At a press conference in Kyiv on July 11, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi announced that Kolomiyets was “back on Ukrainian soil,” explaining that Russian authorities had “deported” him via Georgia. In turn, Kolomiyets’s Russian defense lawyer wrote on Facebook that his client had been held in a basement insi…

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Former Kremlin prisoner Andriy Kolomiets, who returned to Ukraine after 10 years in prison, was immediately taken to the CCP.

RBC-Ukraine informs about this. After the end of the prison term on July 7, the Russian authorities deported Kolomiets to Georgia without any documents. Ukrainian diplomats responded promptly, issued the necessary papers and ensured the safe return of the citizen to his homeland. Read also: Who is Andriy Kolomiets? According to the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, today Andriy Kolomiets is back in his native country.For reference: He was detai…

Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets, who was convicted by Russia, returned to Ukraine - MFAAndriy Kolomiyets, convicted by the Russian Federation in 2015, returned to Ukraine. He was deported to Georgia after serving a 10-year prison term.

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Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiets, whom the Kremlin first imprisoned and then deported abroad, has returned to Ukraine from Russia. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to a statement by the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Georgiy Tykhy at a briefing. "Many of you asked about the fate of Ukrainian political prisoner Andriy Kolomiets. Let me remind those who are not in the context of this information, the other …

Kremlin political prisoner and Maidan activist Andriy Kolomiets, who was illegally convicted and detained by Russia for 10 years, were returned to Ukraine.

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babel.ua broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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