30th March 2026
The undersigned organisations express their serious concern regarding the immediate risk of deportation of Maksim Kuzmin back to Russia, as he is approaching a yet another — and probably the ultimate — hearing on April 2nd 2026 at the Regional Administrative Court in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Maksim Kuzmin is a Russian citizen from Kaliningrad and a reserve military officer who refused to support the illegal war of aggression in Ukraine and started to engage in anti-war activities and eventually was forced to flee his country and seek protection abroad. He applied for protection in Lithuania where he has been declared a threat to national security, placing him under immediate risk.