Justice Info reports on the latest trial of Russian soldiers held at the end of the year in Poltava, eastern Ukraine. The four men, members of a Russian army special forces unit, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 11 years in prison for torture. They could, however, benefit from a prisoner exchange.
After months of war in Ukraine, a number of treason trials are reaching the stage of conviction. This one concerned Crimea and took place in Lviv. Another verdict took place in Kyiv [read box]. In Lviv, western Ukraine, a 58-year-old former employee of the “Ministry of Industrial Policy of the Republic of Crimea”, the peninsula annexed in 2014 by the Russian Federation, was found guilty of high treason by the Halytskyi District Court.