25 years each: three Mariupol defenders received "sentences" in Russia on fictitious cases

25 years each: three Mariupol defenders received "sentences" in Russia on fictitious cases

Kyiv  •  UNN

December 7 2023, 11:01 AM  •  31668 views

Three soldiers of the Ukrainian Azov regiment were sentenced by a so-called "court of the Donetsk People's Republic" to 25 years in prison on fictitious and falsified criminal cases.

The day before, the so-called "court of the Donetsk People's Republic" sentenced three more Ukrainian servicemen from the Azov regiment. UNN reports this with reference to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. 

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These are soldiers of the military unit 3057 of the Eastern Operational and Territorial Association of the National Guard of Ukraine Vladislav Chuzh, Bohdan Beznosko and Svyatoslav Zdorovenko.

The so-called "court" found them guilty of allegedly ill-treating civilians, using prohibited means and methods in an armed conflict, attempted murder committed in a generally dangerous manner on the grounds of political and ideological hatred and enmity, and intentional damage to another's property in a generally dangerous manner.

The Ukrainian soldiers were sentenced to 25 years in prison for each of them, with a maximum security prison term.

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