A resident of Crimea. In June 2024, his detention was reported by the Crimean SMERSH Telegram channel, which helps law enforcement agencies identify people who speak out against the Russian authorities and the war. The message in the channel stated that Shevchuk "published posts insulting Russia, the army and the president, posted Nazi slogans and called for slaughtering Russians, and denied the territorial integrity of the country". On 19 June 2024, Shevchuk was fined 45,000 rubles under the article on insulting the authorities (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code of Administrative Offences) because of several pictures with statements against Putin. In one of the pictures, Putin had a letter Z drawn on his forehead. On the same day, the court fined Shevchuk 45 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to the court ruling, the pictures he published depicted an animal in the uniform of a Russian serviceman and an AFU soldier cutting off the heads of Russian servicemen. At the same time, the court arrested Shevchuk for 13 days under the article on the demonstration of prohibited symbols (part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of the Right Sector emblem.

Later, a criminal case on calls to extremism was opened against the Crimean: according to the investigation, he called for violence against Russians. There are four episodes in the case. On 25 February 2025, Shevchuk was sentenced to five years and ten days in a general regime colony.

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