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| Azov militant receives a life sentence for shooting residents of Mariupol |
| 2024-01-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a court sentenced Sergei Mikhailenko, a machine gunner of the Ukrainian Azov battalion (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), to life imprisonment. He is guilty of shooting up a car with civilians in the city of Mariupol, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reported. “The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic issued a verdict in a criminal case against the 25-year-old senior machine gunner of the separate special forces unit “Azov” Sergei Mikhailenko... The court sentenced Mikhailenko to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime correctional colony,” the statement says. The court found that Mikhailenko saw a civilian car with white ribbons and inscriptions stating that there were children in the car in Mariupol on March 19, 2022. However, he shot the car, thereby fulfilling the order of his leadership to eliminate the civilian population. Two men, a woman and a three-year-old boy died immediately. The grandmother and the other two children were able to escape. As Regnum reported, on October 26, 2023, militant of the Ukrainian Azov battalion Sergei Pyurko was sentenced to 26 years for cruel treatment of civilians in Mariupol and attempted murder. Earlier, on October 24, the DPR court sentenced to 25 years in prison the Ukrainian nationalist Alexey Fiklinets, who on March 11, 2022, while intoxicated, shot a civilian resident of Mariupol. |
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