Deported Ukrainian medical student in Russia tells his story

Twenty-four-year-old Ukrainian Serhiy Hulko came to Moscow from Odessa several years ago to study at the faculty of fundamental medicine at Moscow State University. He was due to defend his thesis this summer. However, in March, other students reported him and handed over two-year-old screenshots of Hulko’s posts about the war in Ukraine to the authorities, writes Elizaveta Nesterova for Mediazona.

As a result, he was detained, sent to administrative arrest three times, expelled from the university, and deported.

Now safe, Hulko spoke to Mediazona about his experience with Russian law enforcement, being urged to go to war, and the border guards who denied him entry into Georgia.
Full report and Hulko’s personal testimony on the Mediazona site