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| Aidar militant who fought in the DPR receives 18 years in prison |
| 2024-03-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A militant of the nationalist group “Aidar” (an extremist and terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited) Sergei Skidan, who fought in the DPR, was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security colony. This decision was made by the Southern District Military Court on March 5. As the court's press service clarified, he was found guilty of participation in a terrorist organization and forcible seizure or retention of power. The criminal case against the militant was investigated under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It was established that on May 7, 2020, Skidan entered into a contract for military service in the terrorist organization Aidar. From the beginning of May to the beginning of June 2020, the serviceman underwent special training, after which he arrived at an observation post near the village of Starognatovka in the Volnovakha region of the DPR. Here he put into practice the skills acquired during his studies. As Regnum reported, on February 2, a court in the DPR sentenced Azov militant Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murders of civilians in Mariupol committed in March 2022. Thus, as follows from the court materials, he ordered his subordinate to kill a man and a woman who did not participate in the military conflict. Later, Aliyev killed another civilian on the street, shooting him in the head with a machine gun. On February 21, the Supreme Court of the DPR convicted in absentia a soldier of the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion, who gave the order to shell civilian infrastructure. The court found senior sergeant Roman Shebanov guilty of cruelty to the civilian population, attempted murder of two or more persons and deliberate damage to someone else's property in a generally dangerous manner. Shebanov was sentenced to 28 years in prison in a maximum security colony. |
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