02 September 2026, 22:34
In Crimea, a judge ordered the deportation of a Ukrainian citizen for refusing to accept a Russian passport
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PHOTO: ZMINA
In Crimea, a judge from the occupation-controlled Alushta City Court unlawfully ordered the expulsion of a Ukrainian citizen from the peninsula for refusing to obtain a Russian passport. The judge is now facing charges of unlawful deportation.
This was reported by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.
According to the investigation, in 2017, the occupation judge heard a case involving an alleged administrative violation. He ruled that the Ukrainian citizen was a foreigner who had violated the rules of stay in Russia.
The basis for this was the man’s refusal to accept a Russian passport. The judge ordered his forced expulsion from the Crimean Peninsula.
The Ukrainian man was taken to the Rostov region. There, he was held for six months in a temporary detention center for foreigners, after which he was forcibly transported to territory controlled by Ukraine.
The occupying authorities have no right to require Ukrainian citizens to obtain Russian documents or to deprive them of the opportunity to reside in Crimea.
The prosecutor’s office classified the judge’s actions as a war crime under Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to ZMINA, the case involvesYevhen Skisov, a “judge” of the occupation-controlled Alushta City Court. The relevant information regarding the charges, dated August 25, 2026, is posted on the website of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
Earlier,an occupation judge from Crimea,Nadiya Sobeshchanska, whobetrayed her oath and sided with the Russian occupiers,was sentenced to 11 years in prison.She was found guilty of high treason.
In addition, three former Ukrainian prosecutors from Crimea received prison terms ranging from 13 to 14 years for treason. Instead of leaving the peninsula after the occupation, they chose to pursue careers in the illegal prosecutorial bodies of the Russian Federation.
