{"id":1267041,"date":"2025-07-24T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-ukrainian-prisoner-was-convicted-in-russia-what-was-he-accused-of\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:39:57","slug":"a-ukrainian-prisoner-was-convicted-in-russia-what-was-he-accused-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-ukrainian-prisoner-was-convicted-in-russia-what-was-he-accused-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian prisoner was convicted in Russia: what was he accused of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 38-year-old Yaroslav Chernyak from Poltava region to 13 years in prison for participating in the Aidar battalion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by Russian media with reference to the court&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p> Chernyak was found guilty of terrorist organization activities. He will serve the first three years in prison, the rest in a maximum-security colony.<\/p>\n<p> According to the investigation, in July 2024, Chernyak joined Aidar and served as a rifleman-medic in the Donetsk region. In November, he was taken prisoner, which became known only in March of the following year. The serviceman&#8217;s data was added to the Rosfinmonitoring list in April.<\/p>\n<p> Russia designated Aidar a terrorist organization in September 2023, and the battalion was added to the list in December. Since then, captured members of the unit have been tried on charges of &#8220;terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In the same court at the end of June, 38-year-old Andriy Rybak from Zhytomyr region received an identical sentence &#8211; 13 years in prison for belonging to Aidar.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/do-16-rokiv-uv-iaznennia-u-rf-zasudyly-ukrainskykh-viyskovosluzhbovtsiv-vziatykh-v-polon-na-kurshchyni\/\">Russia sentenced three Ukrainian servicemen in the case of &#8220;committing terrorist acts&#8221; in the Kursk region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, in temporarily occupied Energodar <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-zasudyly-pratsivnyka-zaes-do-25-rokiv-za-gratamy\/\">, the Russians sentenced an employee of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Vadym Trachuk, to 25 years in prison.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In addition, 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<\/a> . One of the defendants received a life sentence.<\/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>The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 38-year-old Yaroslav Chernyak from Poltava region to 13 years in prison for participating in the Aidar battalion. This was reported by Russian media with reference to the court&#8217;s press service. Chernyak was found guilty of terrorist organization activities. He will serve the first three years in prison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1017334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76870],"class_list":["post-1267041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267041","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}