In Russia, the Garrison Military Court considered the case of 20-year-old Ukrainian Mykyta Shkryabin, who was deprived of liberty by the Russian military during the hostilities in Ukraine, and stated that the prisoner has no procedural rights in Russia, including that he is not a prisoner of war, the head of the Russian.

Mykyta Shkryabin was captured by the Russian military on March 29, 2022 during the fighting in Ukraine. Since then, it has been at the disposal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in an unidentified location.. In August, Shkryabin’s Russian lawyer Leonid Solovyov received confirmation of his imprisonment “in connection with the opposition to a special military operation”. However, the whereabouts of the Ukrainian, as well as the procedural grounds for his detention, were not reported to the lawyer, referring to "

The lawyer was directly denied a visit to a Ukrainian citizen and noted that the Ministry of Defense does not recognize Shkryabin as a prisoner of war.

After a number of appeals to the bodies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, where he was denied consideration of complaints, the lawyer filed a complaint with the garrison military court, which on December 12 recognized the inaction of the military investigation as legal.

The Russian court found:.

Shkryabin detained for illegal actions.

at the same time, he is not a defendant in any criminal cases, he is not being prosecuted,.

therefore, he does not have any procedural rights, including to a lawyer.

Chikov noted that, according to various estimates, there are several thousand captured citizens of Ukraine in Russia, the location of most of them is unknown..

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, at the request of Russian lawyers, confirms the fact of detaining specific individuals and information about their state of health, but access to them is prohibited.

Recently, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that during the nine months of a full-scale war, 1,331 defenders returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity. At the same time, in the summer, human rights organizations estimated the number of citizens of Ukraine captured by the Russians at eight thousand..