{"id":1249029,"date":"2025-06-19T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/up-to-16-years-in-prison-russian-federation-sentences-ukrainian-servicemen-captured-in-kursk-region\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:57:40","slug":"up-to-16-years-in-prison-russian-federation-sentences-ukrainian-servicemen-captured-in-kursk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/up-to-16-years-in-prison-russian-federation-sentences-ukrainian-servicemen-captured-in-kursk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 16 years in prison: Russian Federation sentences Ukrainian servicemen captured in Kursk region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia has sentenced three Ukrainian servicemen in the case of &#8220;committing terrorist acts&#8221; in the Kursk region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-slidkom-rf-vyroky-ukrainski-viiskovi\/33449055.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, whose report is being transmitted by Radio Liberty.<\/p>\n<p> These are military personnel Natalia Balaklytska, who was sentenced to 15 years, Oleksandr Dudnyk, who received 15 years, and Yevhen Kraivanov, who was sentenced to 14 years.<\/p>\n<p> The Russian investigation claims that Balaklytska and Dudnik served in the 116th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, while Kraivanov served in the 17th Separate Tank Brigade.<\/p>\n<p> The Russians claim that the Ukrainian military &#8220;impeded the evacuation of civilians&#8221; in the Kursk region, and &#8220;also participated in the blockade of Sudzha and the village of Olhivka and their keeping under illegal armed control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Ukraine has not yet commented on reports of sentences for captured soldiers.<\/p>\n<p> RosZMI reported that as of early March 2025, the Second Western District Military Court had received cases against 115 Ukrainian servicemen who were captured by Russian forces in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rosii-zasudyly-rodynu-melitopoltsiv-na-terminy-vid-20-rokiv-do-dovichnoho-u-chomu-ikh-zvynuvatyly\/\">convicted a family from Melitopol on charges of partisan activity. One of the defendants received a life sentence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, a court in Russia has illegally sentenced <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rosii-zasudyly-dvokh-ukraintsiv-do-16-rokiv-za-gratamy-u-chomu-ikh-zvynuvatyly\/\">two Ukrainian servicemen, Dmytro Yaremov and Anton Borymsky, to 16 years in prison<\/a> . The Russians accuse them of \u201ccommitting a terrorist act\u201d over an operation in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has sentenced three Ukrainian servicemen in the case of &#8220;committing terrorist acts&#8221; in the Kursk region. This was reported by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, whose report is being transmitted by Radio Liberty. These are military personnel Natalia Balaklytska, who was sentenced to 15 years, Oleksandr Dudnyk, who received 15 years, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1249016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76878],"class_list":["post-1249029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}