A Finnish court has sentenced Yan Petrovsky, aka. Voislav Torden, the former commander of the Russian neo-Nazi unit “Rusich,” to life in prison for war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine in 2014. He was found guilty of four war crimes, including the killing of a Ukrainian soldier. This marks Finland’s first-ever Ukraine war crimes conviction. A Finnish court has sentenced Yan Petrovsky, aka. Voislav Torden, the former commander of the Russian neo-Nazi unit “Rusich,” to life in prison for war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine in 2014, Finnish media outlet Yle reported. The Helsinki District Court found Petrovsky guilty of four war crimes committed in Luhansk in September 2014, including the killing of a Ukrainian soldier, the most serious charge. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for five war crimes, but the court dropped one charge. The court dismissed the accusation that Petrovsky, as deputy commander of “Rusich,” had directly facilitated an ambush and firefight on September 5, 2014, where combatants used a Ukrainian flag as cover. The court ruled that the presented evidence was insufficient to conclude that “Rusich” was solely responsible for planning and executing the ambush in all its aspects. (…) Antifascist Europe has previously covered Petrovsky’s escape from Russia. Yan “Slavyan” Petrovsky is an ultranationalist activist and co-founder of the neo-Nazi paramilitary group “Rusich.” Born in Irkutsk, Russia, he moved to Norway in 2004, where he gained residency and worked as a tattoo artist. In 2014, he traveled to Donbas and joined Alexei “Fritz” Milchakov’s “Rusich” unit under the alias “Veliky Slavyan.” Norway revoked his residency and deported him to Russia in 2016. He later obtained new Russian documents under the name Voislav Torden and acquired Finnish residency through his marriage to a Finnish university student. Finnish authorities arrested him on July 20, 2023, as he was preparing to board a flight to Nice, France.
via antifascisteurope: Finland Sentenced Ex-Rusich Commander Yan Petrovsky to Life
siehe auch: Finnland Ehemaliger Anführer von russischer Söldnermiliz wegen Kriegsverbrechen verurteilt In Finnland ist ein ehemaliger Anführer einer russischen Söldnermiliz wegen Kriegsverbrechen in der Ukraine schuldig gesprochen worden. Ein Gericht in Helsinki verurteilte den Mann zu einer lebenslangen Haftstrafe. Er soll in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 mit der Gruppe „Russitisch“ an Kampfhandlungen im Osten der Ukraine teilgenommen haben. Dabei seien Kriegsverbrechen begangen worden, für die der Verurteilte als Anführer die Verantwortung trage.