First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Iryna Gerashchenko told reporters this morning that a 75-year-old Ukrainian citizen Yuriy Soloshenko, who had earlier been released from Russian captivity, passed away April 4.
“This morning, I saw a message from Yuriy Soloshenko’s son saying that his father, Yuriy Danylovych, passed away earlier today… He was a very bright and nice person. Two years ago, Moscow released him only because Yuriy Danylovych had cancer… He has been fighting all this time, while his family and all those kind people have been helping him. I’m happy that we managed to get him freed in June 2016 so that he could be with his family all this time,” Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook.
