He had been illegally held behind bars for over four years.
One of the Kremlin's political prisoners from Ukraine, Hlib Shabliy, has been released from prison and successfully returned to his home country.
That's according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba.
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Case of "Ukrainian saboteurs"
In August 2016, Russia's FSB security agency said its operatives detained in the temporarily occupied Crimea of a group of what they claimed were "Ukrainian saboteurs" who had allegedly been plotting terrorist attacks on the occupied peninsula.
Among the detainees was Hlib Shabliy, as well as Yevhen Panov, Andriy Zakhtey, Volodymyr Prysich, Volodymyr Dudko, Dmytro Shtyblikov, Oleksiy Besarabov, and Oleksiy Stohniy.