In Finland, they sentenced the Russian life imprisonment for war crimes in Ukraine

Helsinki. To a lifelong prison sentence, the Finnish court of the Russian citizen for war crimes on Friday was sentenced to Ukraineinforms AFP.

Vojislav Torden, former commander of the Russian neo -Nazi paramilitary group Russian, was arrested by the Finnish police at the airport in the capital Helsinki in July 2023.

He was accused of war crimes in Ukraine from 2014, including the disfigurement of the body of a wounded Ukrainian soldier.

Thirty -eight -year -old Torden was accused of five points of war crimes, which killed 22 Ukrainian soldiers and others suffered serious injuries, resulting from the text of the indictment to which she looked at AFP.

Other accusations were mainly concerned with barbarian methods that he and his fighters committed in these events. Torden, formerly known as Jan Petrovsky, rejected all the accusations during his process, which began in December 2024.

« I did not shoot even times, » he said in front of the Helsinki District Court according to the Finnish public service station Yle.

They executed injured soldiers

At the beginning of September 2014, the Russian forces attacked a convoy of two vehicles in which Ukrainian soldiers were moving, AFP recalls.

A surprising attack took place on the road between the cities of Luhansk and Ščáčka and behind the positions of the Ukrainian forces in the village of Cvitni Pisky at the checkpoint that previously used Ukrainian units.

Russian gunmen to deceive the soldiers of the battalion used the Ukrainian flag, making the Ukrainians believe that the control point was still under the control of their forces.

When Ukrainian soldiers approached, Russian gunmen immediately lowered fire on their vehicles and used a rocket launcher, as a result of which the convoy began to burn. 21 Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives.

Torden then participated in the shooting of injured soldiers, according to the indictment. He also allowed the gunmen to whom he commanded to disfigure one of the soldiers by carving a symbol of the group – a wheelbar, an eight -arm swastika – on his face, writes AFP. The soldier then succumbed to his injuries.

The symbol of the spinning point is often used by ultranationalists and neo -Nazi groups in Russia And in Eastern Europe, the agency recalls.

The Russian will not marry Ukraine

The Tordena court finally found guilty of four out of five points of the indictment, writes AFP. The indictment, according to the verdict, failed that he and his unit Russian were directly responsible for the involvement of the convoy.

Torden, however, was recognized as guilty of the command of the actions of the gunmen of this unit on the spot after the fall and killing one injured soldier.

The Finnish Supreme Court ruled that Torden could not be issued to Ukraine, as he could be issued in the prison there by prison.

Finland applies « universal jurisdiction », which is a legal principle that allows him to accuse his land for suspicion of serious crimes committed anywhere in the world, concludes AFP.