Famous traveler and priest Fedor Konyukhov was included in the list of enemies of Ukraine because of illegal crossing of the border.

Konyukhov's name appeared on the website "Peacemaker" under the heading "Purgatory", where Russian citizens who illegally visited the Crimea from the Russian Federation.

Fedor Konyukhov - a very bright personality, one of the most famous travelers in the former Soviet Union, an expert in extreme sports and survival in the wild. He is the first Russian to complete the Grand Slam program (he visited the North Pole, the South Pole, Cape Horn and Everest); The first in the CIS finished the program "Seven Peaks", having visited the tops of all parts of the world (including in Asia - on Mount Everest, in Europe - on Elbrus); Crossed alone the Atlantic Ocean on a rowing boat with a world record; Made the first in the history of Russia a single round-the-world voyage on a yacht without stops and a round-the-world trip in a balloon.

Simultaneously, Konyukhov is a priest of the UOC-MP (according to the Ukrainian version of Wikipedia). In his youth Konyukhov graduated not only from the nautical school, but also from the Leningrad Theological Seminary; In 2010, the bishop of Zaporozhye and Melitopol, the UOC MP, Joseph dedicated Konyukhov to the priesthood.

The future traveler was born in 1951 in the Zaporozhye region, but is a Russian citizen and an adherent of the "Russian world".

According to RIA Novosti, on March 17, 2017 Konyukhov presented in Simferopol a book for children and adolescents Crimean War. Defense of Sevastopol ", timed to the third anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea, which Konyukhov calls" the reunification of the peninsula with Russia ". During the presentation the author reported that in Simferopol his nephews live that he "loves this land", after which he made a typically chauvinistic statement: "The Crimea is a stronghold. With Crimea now all of Russia is covered ".