Ukrainian spy who cursed Russia has died
Ukrainian spy Yuri Soloshenko, arrested in August 2014 in Moscow, died in Kyiv, and was replaced in 2016 with Odessa journalists Elena Glishchinskaya and Vitaly Didenko.
Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko reported this on her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to her, Soloshenko died of cancer two days after President Petro Poroshenko remembered him.
“Moscow gave him to us 2 years ago only because Yuri Danilovich had cancer... he fought all this time, his family and kind people helped him. I am happy that we managed to release him in June 2016 and he was with his family during this time. We called each other from time to time, he sent me motivating SMS messages of support in various difficult times, during some parliamentary battles. Two days ago we talked about Mr. Yuri with the President and Svyatoslav Tsegolko, that he is a very bright person, we kept contact with him all this time, tried to help,” Gerashchenko wrote.
And Soloshenko’s comrade-in-arms Gennady Afanasyev, who was convicted in the Russian Federation for organizing terrorist attacks and was also later exchanged, remembered how the deceased shouted the famous phrase of Mikhail Lermontov in the sky over Moscow.
“The old man fought until his last breath, remaining a true Ukrainian - proud, shy, polite and indestructible. I will never forget how, flying over damned Moscow, he shouted: “Farewell, unwashed Russia.”
Let us remind you that Yuriy Soloshenko headed the Ukrainian defense plant Znamya and was detained in the Russian Federation with six thousand dollars in his hands. According to the investigation, he tried to remove secret components for the S-300 air defense system. On October 14, 2015, the Moscow City Court sentenced Soloshenko to six years in a maximum security colony.
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