Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksiy Honcharenko has been released from a Moscow police station, defense team member Nikolai Polozov said.

"Honcharenko has been released from the Kitai-Gorod police station," Polozov tweeted on Sunday evening.

The Russian Investigative Committee said on Sunday that MP Honcharenko had been detained in Moscow on administrative counts of disobedience to the lawful demands of the police during the mourning march.