Released as a result of a prisoner exchange between the Russian Federation and the United States, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was exchanged for WNBA star Britney Griner, violated Ukrainian law and illegally crossed the Ukrainian border.

Man visits temporarily Russian-occupied Luhansk without approval, Russian state media report.

Bout was at the opening of the Lugansk branch of the pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). Before that, he received an LDPR party card.

Bout noted that he was “glad to visit the city of Lugansk for the first time” and expressed confidence that in the occupied region “it will soon become peaceful, and people will live without fear for their future”.

The current leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Leonid Slutsky, who arrived with Bout, complained that they had to change the route twice due to the fact that "

Bout told Russian RT last week that he supported Moscow's so-called "

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Recall that in the United States, Viktor Bout was accused of supplying weapons to Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and militants in Rwanda, and his secret business became the basis for the Hollywood film Armed Baron.