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| Ukrainian naval infantryman receives 25 years in prison for killing a man in the DPR |
| 2024-01-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A court in Donetsk sentenced a Ukrainian marine to 25 years in a maximum security colony for the murder of a man in Mariupol, the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) reported on January 15. “The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic passed a verdict in a criminal case against the 26-year-old commander of the 2nd squad of the 2nd platoon of the 2nd company of the Marine Corps battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ivan Oliy. Taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, the court sentenced Oliy to 25 years in prison to be served in a maximum security correctional colony,” the prosecutor’s office told TASS. At the beginning of March 2022, he shot with targeted shots from a machine gun a car moving along Zaozernaya Street in Mariupol, in which there was a civilian. As a result of his injuries, the man died at the scene of the crime. The convict was found guilty under clauses “g”, “l”, part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by an organized group, motivated by political, ideological hatred), Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of civilians in occupied territory). The prosecutor's office explained that Oliy carried out the criminal order of company commander Cholovsky, who had previously been sentenced by the court in absentia to 26 years in prison to be served in a high-security penal colony. As reported by IA Regnum, on December 12, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced in absentia the Ukrainian soldier Alexander Zazhirenko, who tortured a Russian prisoner and killed him. According to the case materials, on March 29, 2022, Zazhirenko met a wounded Russian serviceman who was unarmed on one of the streets of Mariupol. A representative of the Ukrainian Armed Forces delivered a soldier of the Russian Armed Forces to a nearby residential building to conduct an interrogation, during which he tortured the prisoner, and then shot him. On November 7, the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced Ukrainian sniper Igor Kleshchunov, who shot four local residents in Mariupol, to life imprisonment. He was convicted on charges of training for terrorist purposes, violent seizure of power, murder and cruelty to civilians. On December 13, in Rostov-on-Don, Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Anton Baydrakov was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of a resident of Mariupol and an attempt to seize power in the DPR. |
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