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Tereshchenko Ivan Volodymyrovych

Date of birth: February 12, 1974 (52 years old)
citizenship: Украина
Occupation: военная служба; рабочие профессии
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  May 16, 2022
Sentence:  17 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 3 года в тюрьме
Date of sentencing:  June 10, 2024
Current location:  Penal Сolony No. 11, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Ukrainian serviceman Ivan Tereshchenko, who was taken prisoner in Mariupol, has been sentenced to 17 years on charges of kidnapping and the seizure of a vessel. A Russian court classified Tereshchenko’s actions from 2018—when he was serving with the Ukrainian Border Guard—in this manner; at that time, he was aboard the patrol boat Onyx, which brought a fishing seiner and its crew into a Ukrainian port. The vessel had been operating in disputed waters of the Sea of ​​Azov, carrying documentation issued in occupied Crimea.