Russian jailed for life in Finland for Ukraine war crimes

Russia paramilitary unit leader sentenced to life for war crimes by Finland court

The Helsinki District Court in Finland on Friday sentenced a 38-year-old man to life for committing war crimes in Ukraine. Voislav Torden, 38, Russian-Norwegian (better known as Yan Petrovskiy) was a deputy leader of a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit called Rusich, during Russia’s first attacks on Ukraine in 2014. According to the prosecutors of Helsinki’s District Court, Petrovskyi was responsible for leading an attack on Ukraine’s eastern frontier …

Woislaw Torden was involved in a deadly attack on Ukrainian fighters, a court ruled. He boasted about it as early as 2015 against the F.A.Z.

Finland sentences Russian paramilitary commander to life in prison for war crimes in Ukraine

A Helsinki court has sentenced Russian neo-Nazi and former paramilitary commander Yan Petrovsky to life in prison on four counts of war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine, Finnish broadcaster YLE reported on Friday.

Finnish court convicts Russian man for war crimes in Ukraine

Finnish court sentences Russian paramilitary to life imprisonment for war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

In Finland, a former leader of a Russian mercenary militia has been found guilty of war crimes in Ukraine. A court in Helsinki sentenced the man to life imprisonment.