MOSCOW, May 25. Writer Yan Taksyur, who was persecuted by the Ukrainian authorities, is now in Russia, a source familiar with the situation said.
«Yan Ilyich is already in Lugansk, will soon be in Moscow,» the source said, without specifying what he had done. Taksyur, 70, who has a serious cancer, was suspected by the Ukrainian authorities of treason due to criticism of the actions of the Kyiv regime and pro-Russian statements. The elderly man spent several months in prison.
In August last year, Ukrainian media wrote that Taksyur, after five months in a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of treason, was released on bail in the amount of 1.2 million hryvnias. The writer's family asked to be released from custody due to cancer. Taksyur himself considers the criminal case against him to be persecution for dissent.
As the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ) reported on Thursday, Taksyur was exchanged the day after he was sentenced under the article «high treason». «On May 24, the Shevchenkovsky Court in Kyiv sentenced Yan Taksyur under the article 'high treason.' />
The writer has repeatedly spoken out in support of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and against the actions of the Kiev regime.