[3] In March 2006 was elected a deputy of Luhansk Oblast Council of the Vth convocation (fixed region Kadiivka).

He helps Ukrainian military men and frontiersmen with ammunition: body armor, steel pots, night vision devices, cars.

He participates in organization of Donetsk and Luhansk citizens’ temporary relocation to Western regions of the country and to Odesa.

S. Shakhov managed to save a pilot's life who participated in military actions in War in Donbass zone.

Shakhov became in 2016 a people's deputy of Ukraine after winning a 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election by-election of constituency No.

[8] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election (as an independent candidate, although he was a member of the party Our Land at the time) again won constituency No.

[13] Since then Shakhov joins parliamentary online meetings with his camera turned off and mostly votes "for" consideration of the agenda.