Nestor Shufrich. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 23.Verkhovna Rada deputy Nestor Shufrich announced that he had returned to Ukraine from Europe.Shufrich left the country on May 13th. According to the deputy, he traveled abroad in connection with the need to conduct a medical examination of one of the three children. “I didn’t have any questions at the border. Already in Ukraine,” Shufrych told the Ukrainian edition of Strana.ua. The publication also published a photo of Shufrych at the border. In early March, Ukrainian media wrote that Shufrych had been «captured» by members of the «territorial defense battalion» allegedly created by ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. According to Strana.ua, there is a version that Shufrych was detained because he photographed the positions of the territorial defense. The publication in the Telegram channel published a video in which a man in military uniform speaks harshly with Shufrich. The deputy himself declared the next day that the situation with his detention had been resolved.
