In the Kiev district court of Kharkiv, a meeting was held on the case of the separatist Sergei Yudaev who in the spring of 2014 seized the building of the Kharkov Regional State Administration and organized pogroms in the editorial office of the local television channel, reports UNN.

According to the verdict of the court, C. Yudaev was sentenced to 8 years in custody, but for the "Law of Savchenko" he was released directly from the courtroom under an amnesty.

Now he is assigned 5 years probation with a probation period of 3 years.

The announcement of the verdict was scheduled for 11:00, however, at 10:51 am an unknown person reported on the mining of the building. Experts examined 1.4 thousand square meters of premises and 2 thousand square meters of the adjacent territory, evacuated 172 people. No explosives were found, notes Lens..

At 15:54, after the trial participants entered the hall and Judge Svetlana Shmadchenko proceeded to announce the verdict, another message was received about the explosives in the building. This time no one left the premises and the judge continued the meeting.

Sergei Gaponov, Oleg Krutov and Denis Levchenko, accused of mass disorders during the capture of HGAA in the same production, were sentenced to five years in prison and released from serving a sentence with a probation period of three years.

Recall, on April 6 and 7, 2014, in front of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, rallies took place that turned into mass riots.

Then pro-Russian activists seized the building of the regional state administration. The administrative building was vacated and the supporters of the "Russian spring" were detained by the soldiers of the special subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine "Jaguar". Among the 63 accused - three people are held as organizers of mass riots. These are Sergei Yudaev, Egor Logvinov and Spartak Golovachev.

Yudaev was detained on April 8, 2014 in Kharkov after the liberation of the building of the State Administration.