MP Yevhen Shevchenko has been detained while attempting to cross the Ukrainian-Polish border.
This information was shared by numberous media resources and confirmed to Interfax-Ukraine by law enforcement sources.
The interlocutors did share the details of the detention.
Due to martial law, men between 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine.
As a reminder, Shevchenko is known for his support for Alexander Lukashenko, who considers himself the President of Belarus. Last April, Shevchenko travelled to Minsk to meet with Lukashenko where told him that "more than a third of Ukrainians would like to see him as their president."
The party "Servant of the People," which Shevchenko was a member of at the time, said the trip was his own initiative but warned him that they will demand explanations. On April 22, Shevchenko himself asked to be expelled from the faction.
In addition, Shevchenko participated in a TV show of Russian propagandists, was nostalgic for Soviet medicine. One of Shevchenko's colleagues in the faction once called him a "Clown Vatnik (Soviet Union admirer)" and an "intellectually limited creature."