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| Azov militant receives life sentence for killing civilians |
| 2024-02-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A court in the DPR sentenced Azov fighter (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murders of civilians in Mariupol committed in March 2022, the Investigative Committee reported on February 2. Aliyev was found guilty of committing crimes under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on cruel treatment of the civilian population, as well as the murder of two or more persons committed by an organized group, motivated by political and ideological hatred, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. “The investigation and the court established that in March 2022, Aliyev, together with his colleagues, carried out a combat mission to protect and defend a site in the city of Mariupol and was in a combat position equipped in one of the apartment buildings. Having discovered the movement of a man and a woman who did not participate in the armed conflict, Aliyev gave the order to his subordinate Oleg Lukyanenko to kill them. Lukyanenko shot two people with a sniper rifle,” the department’s press service noted. A few days after the crime described, Aliyev killed another civilian on the street, shooting him in the head with a machine gun. Also, at the end of March 2022, he gave the order to his colleagues Ruslan Kolodyazhny and Anatoly Stronko to shoot two unarmed civilians, the press service said. “During the preliminary investigation, Aliyev did not admit his guilt and denied his involvement in the commission of crimes. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime colony. Previously, Lukyanenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Kolodyazhny and Stronko to long terms of imprisonment,” the press service said in a statement. As Regnum reported earlier, in November 2023, the Supreme Court of the DPR passed a verdict against 27-year-old UAF marine Ivan Taran, who shot seven civilians in Mariupol. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. In December 2023, the court found Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps soldier Dmitry Shalar guilty of shooting civilians in Mariupol and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. |
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