Former regional member Sviatash, sentenced in Ukraine to 12 years, arrested at Stockholm airport Dmitry Sviatash arrived in Sweden last week to attend a Stevie Wonder concert. During the passport control at the airport, the border guards stopped him and refused to enter. According to lawyer Mark Safarian, the reason was Poland's decision to ban entry, which was entered into the general database of the Schengen area. Sviatesh is now in a temporary detention center of the Immigration Service. The lawyer claims that the decision is "politically motivated", and his client opposes extradition to Ukraine. Since 2019, Svyatash has been living in Russia, and since 2023, the former deputy of the people is suspected of treason on the background. In the summer of 2024, a court in Ukraine sentenced the former district to 12 years in prison. He was found guilty of justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and fraud in the amount of 2.2 billion hryvnias. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.

Former regional member Sviatash, sentenced in Ukraine to 12 years, arrested at Stockholm airport Dmitry Sviatash arrived in Sweden last week to attend a Stevie Wonder concert. During the passport control at the airport, the border guards stopped him and refused to enter. According to lawyer Mark Safarian, the reason was Poland's decision to ban entry, which was entered into the general database of the Schengen area. Sviatesh is now in a temporary detention center of the Immigration Service. The lawyer claims that the decision is "politically motivated", and his client opposes extradition to Ukraine. Since 2019, Svyatash has been living in Russia, and since 2023, the former deputy of the people is suspected of treason on the background. In the summer of 2024, a court in Ukraine sentenced the former district to 12 years in prison. He was found guilty of justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and fraud in the amount of 2.2 billion hryvnias. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.