“His wife called me and said they let him go. I can’t say about whether he stayed in Ukraine or returned to Russia, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
In the office of "United Russia" in Sevastopol, in turn, they said that they were clarifying information about the detention of a party member.
On December 5, the Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of Kucheryavyi on the border with the Crimea in the Kherson region as part of a criminal case on an encroachment on the territorial integrity of the country.
In August, Ukraine declared persona non grata a Russian diplomat in Lvov on charges of "intelligence gathering" in the interests of Russia.