A Ukrainian court sentences three people to 15 years in prison for joining the pro-Russian militias of Donetsk

July 26 () –

The Ukrainian authorities announced on Tuesday the sentence to 15 years in prison against three people for joining the militias of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk, located in the east of the country.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has indicated that a Ukrainian court has found these three people “guilty of treason” and collaborating with Russia’s “armed aggression” against Ukraine, before adding that they were captured in late March. in the town of Viljivka, in the Kharkov region.

Thus, he pointed out that the three “are part of the illegal armed formation of the Russian occupation forces” and added that they “received military training” in Donetsk. “After that, they were sent to the Russian city of Belgorod for intensive military training at a military base and returned to Ukraine, after which they were sent to Kharkov, where they were quickly captured by the Ukrainian defenders,” he detailed.

Lastly, he stated in a message on his Telegram account that “pre-trial investigations were carried out by SBU investigators in the Ivano-Frankivsk region with operational support from the National Police and under procedural guidance from the Office of the Attorney General’s Office.”

The war in Ukraine broke out on February 24 after the invasion order signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days earlier had recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (east), the scene of an armed conflict since 2014.