Samoylov Sergey Viktorovich (Samoylov Sergiy Viktorovich)

In Donetsk in 2021 (the exact date is unknown), 55-year-old local resident, Ukrainian citizen Sergey Samoylov was detained. During his detention, he was beaten; bruises around his eyes were recorded when the man was placed in a temporary detention center on the same day he was detained. Samoylova was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (under the 2016 version of the law). According to the investigation, at the end of 2016 he allegedly was in Donetsk and photographed parking lots and locations of "DPR" security forces in the city, and then sent these photographs to "another participant in the terrorist community." Self-Samoylov claims that his persecution is related to the fact that he sometimes went to his ex-wife, who lives in Kyiv, and his daughter worked in the Aydar battalion from 2016 to 2019. On October 26, 2023, the Southern Military Court found Sergey Samoylov guilty and sentenced him to 5.6 years in a strict regime penal colony. 9 April 2024 the Appellate Military Court upheld the sentence. On August 15, 2025, the Ukrainian was released as part of another prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine.