The Dneprovsky District Court of Kyiv found guilty of high treason and desertion of a former soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taken prisoner in the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

It is reported by the Special Prosecutor's Office of the Southern Region.

By a court verdict, he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 14 years with confiscation of property..

" Eight years later, on February 25, 2022, he returned to the territory of Ukraine as part of the occupation forces that entered the city..

New Kakhovka, Kherson region. On March 1, 2022, the column of invaders was destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the traitor was taken prisoner,"

The department also noted that he and two other Ukrainian soldiers previously sentenced to real punishment were taken prisoner as part of the artillery battalion of the 126th separate guards coastal defense brigade of the Russian Federation, which was defeated by Ukrainian paratroopers in the Nikolaev region.