Two criminal cases were opened against the 64-year-old Crimean man who condemned the annexation

Two more criminal cases have been opened against 64-year-old Oleg Prykhodko, a pro-Ukrainian activist who lived in the annexed Crimea and was sentenced by the Russian authorities to 5 years for allegedly preparing terrorist attacks.

This time Prykhodko is accused of promoting terrorism and rehabilitating Nazism. The reason for the new cases was the denunciations of the Crimean’s cellmates, with whom he was serving time in the prison, known by the unofficial name “Vladimirsky Central”. According to the local pro-government mass media, in particular the publication “Vladimirskie Vedomosti”, Prykhodko in conversations with other prisoners “propagandized terrorist attacks” and “approved the actions of Hitler and his supporters during the Second World War.”

Oleg Prykhodko was detained by FSB officers in Crimea in October 2019. Human rights activists believe that the reason for this was his pro-Ukrainian position: Prykhodko openly opposed the annexation of Crimea and hung the state flag of Ukraine on his home in Saki.

In March 2021, Prykhodko was sentenced to five years in prison. According to the investigation, he was preparing to commit terrorist attacks in Saki and Lviv. The Crimean’s daughter claimed that during the staging in Vladimir, her father was asked about the current.