A court in Russia's far western Kaliningrad exclave has sentenced an activist to one year in prison under a controversial law that criminalizes participation in more than one unsanctioned protest within a 180-day period.
A court in Ukraine has sentenced a Russian soldier from Siberia to 10 years in prison for shelling a residential building in Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv in late February.
On May 31, two Russian servicemen were sentenced to 11 years and 6 month in prison. They had pleaded guilty on a charge of indiscriminate bombing that damaged civilian buildings. This was the second sentence for war crimes by Ukraine’s judiciary. And the first outside the capital city.
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Kotelevsky District Court of Poltava Region found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war (part 2 of Article 28, part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) Russian servicemen Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov, who fired from Grad multiple launch rocket systems Kozacha Lopan, Veterynarne villages (Kharkiv region) and sentenced them to 11.5 years in prison.