Sybiha said responsibility for international crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians is inevitable. The minister also thanked Finland for pioneering the move. "This is a strong message to all Russian ...

Torden was a deputy commander of the Rusich unit, an ultranationalist Russian militia that fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Prosecutors detailed how his unit staged a ...

HELSINKI - A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish ... Petrovsky was detained in Finland at Ukraine's request in 2023 as he tried to travel to France under a false identity.

A Finnish court on Friday sentenced a Russian neo-Nazi to life in prison ... soldier at the scene and posting it to social media. Finland applies “universal jurisdiction”, a legal principle ...

The Helsinki District Court sentenced Russian neo-Nazi mercenary Yan Petrovsky to life in prison for war crimes committed in Ukraine, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported on March 14. Petrovsky, co ...

The Helsinki District Court in Finland found Voislav Tordenin (Jan Petrovsky), the founder and former commander of the Rusich military group, guilty of committing war crimes in Ukraine and sentenced ...

Also known as Voislav Torden, Petrovsky was the commander of the Rusich Group paramilitary unit, which fought alongside Russian proxy forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions starting in 2014.

A Russian man has been jailed for life by a Finnish court for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured soldier.