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Voloshchuk Viktor Vasylovych

Date of birth: August 28, 1970 (56 years old)
citizenship: Украина
City of residence: с. Малая Белозёрка (Херсонская область)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2 ; 280 ч. 2
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  5 лет 6 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  March 27, 2026
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 4, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for Arkhangelsk Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Viktor Voloshchuk, a resident of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for comments on the internet. In them, he allegedly called for people to join Azov and to “use violence against the social group ‘Russian citizens’.” The security services considered the comments to contain calls for extremist and terrorist activity.