The District Court will give a decision on the war crime charges of Russian Voislav Torden

Helsinki The District Court will give its decisions on Friday in Russian VOISLAV TORDEN about war crime charges.

The prosecutor calls for a life imprisonment for Torden, 38, for five war crimes. Tormen has denied all charges.

Prosecutor According to the assistant chief of Torden, the Russian paramilitary Risich fighter group, which ambushed Ukrainian column in the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine on 5 September 2014.

According to the prosecutor, there were a total of 26 soldiers in the column, of which the Risich-trooping killed 22.

According to the prosecutor, the Risich Group cheated on the column to stop at the inspection point by holding the Ukrainian flag, after which the group opened the fire towards the Ukrainian soldiers and fired a thermal rocket.

According to the prosecutor, Tormen also Salli Risich fighters cut the symbol of the group to the wounded Ukrainian soldier in the cheek and posed in a picture published on the web with the body of a delicate Ukrainian soldier. Tormen also took pictures of another Risich chief posing in front of the body, says the prosecutor.

Taxden arrested at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in July 2023. He has denied all charges.

According to the defense, Tormen traveled to Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 because he had heard that the Russian-speaking population living there would be oppressed in the area.

The defense has denied that Tormen would have been in a leading position in Risich. According to the defense, Torden had no military training and his main tasks were to make propaganda and recruitment videos and get humanitarian aid.

According to the defense, the ambush of the Ukrainian soldiers was not organized by Rusich.

The penalty scale in war crimes is exceptionally wide. Under the Criminal Code, a war crime may be sentenced to at least one year or a maximum of life.

Tordden lawyer Heikki Lampela Said in his final statement in court that the district court should dismiss the charges of his principal.

« If this was not the case, in any case, it is not about life -long, but the annual sentence, and the amount will remain with the district court's discretion, » Lampela said.

Tormen has been in detention or imprisoned since his arrest. If the charges are dismissed and the Tormen is released, he is free to leave the country.