Russian archaeologist freed in US-brokered prisoner exchange vows to return to occupied Crimea
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“In the summer, for sure,” said Alexander Butyagin, a Russian archaeologist who continued to excavate the Crimean peninsula after the annexation and was arrested for doing so, to the Russian newspaper Izvestia when asked if he would return to the Crimea he once owned. Butyagin was recently released from a Polish prison in a prisoner exchange. Polish authorities detained him at the request of Ukraine, which, according to the Ukrainians, has been …
Russian archaeologist freed in US-brokered prisoner exchange vows to return to occupied Crimea
In his interview with Russian state-controlled media, Butyagin also thanked the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and other government bodies for their efforts to secure his release.
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