Prison sentences were given to the “Wagnerian” and the intelligence officer of the “Storm” occupation group, who attacked Bakhmut. The Security Service of Ukraine reported this on Telegram.. Both attackers were captured during the fighting in the Bakhmut direction.

One of the convicts is a 23-year-old former prisoner who was serving a sentence in the Tyumen penal colony for rape.. As SBU investigators found out, in October 2022, representatives of Wagner PMC offered him to sign a contract. For this " rubles and " Already in early December last year, the mercenary was transferred to the eastern front, where a few days later he was captured by Ukrainian defenders. The court found him guilty of. 4 st. 447 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (mercenarism). The court sentenced him to 9 years in prison..

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Another criminal is a resident of the Lugansk region, who, before the start of a full-scale invasion, became part of the occupation units of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. The SBU found out that being in the “positions” of a sniper, and then a scout, he actively participated in hostilities in the areas of Rubizhne, Lysichansk and Popasnaya. At the beginning of this year, he underwent special training and was assigned to the “Storm” occupation detachment, formed by the aggressor to break through the positions of the Defense Forces in the Bakhmut area.. In March, Ukrainian defenders detained a militant during a clash near a Ukrainian city. Based on the collected evidence, the court found the attacker guilty under two articles of the Criminal Code: h. 2 st. 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine) and h. 2 st. 260 (participation in paramilitary or armed formations not provided for by law). The court ordered him to spend 10 years in prison..

Earlier it was reported that the SBU reported suspicion to the deputy commander of the airborne troops of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Anatoly Kontsevoi, on whose orders the invaders seized the Gostomel airport in February 2022 and destroyed the world's largest aircraft AN-225 "