{"id":1346313,"date":"2026-01-19T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-courts-handed-down-14-in-person-sentences-to-russian-military-prisoners-for-war-crimes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:37:27","slug":"ukrainian-courts-handed-down-14-in-person-sentences-to-russian-military-prisoners-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-courts-handed-down-14-in-person-sentences-to-russian-military-prisoners-for-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian courts handed down 14 in-person sentences to Russian military prisoners for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the start of the full-scale war, Ukrainian courts have handed down 14 in-person sentences to captured Russian Federation servicemen for committing war crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is reported by the project “Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People”<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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Since 2022, Ukraine has brought to criminal responsibility and sentenced 14 Russian citizens who served in the occupying army. Ten of them were later transferred to Russia as part of a prisoner of war exchange. In total, 1,059 people have been brought to criminal responsibility in war crimes cases.<\/p>\n

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Among those convicted are military personnel involved in the killings of civilians, shelling of residential areas, looting, torture, and executions of prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

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In particular, four Russian servicemen \u2014 Valentin Bych, Maksym Volvak, Mykhailo Ivanov, and Ruslan Kolesnikov \u2014 were convicted of cruel treatment of civilians in the village of Borova, Kharkiv region. The Kotelevsky District Court of Poltava region sentenced them to 11 years in prison each. All three were later transferred to the Russian Federation during exchanges.<\/p>\n

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Two more \u2014 Oleksandr Bobykin and Oleksandr Ivanov \u2014 received 11 years and 6 months in prison each for shelling the village of Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv region with a Grad MLRS. Both were also exchanged.<\/p>\n

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Separate sentences relate to the intentional killings of civilians and prisoners of war. In particular, Radik Ghukasyan was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting down a civilian car in the Kyiv region, and Vadym Shyshymarin was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing a civilian in the Sumy region.<\/p>\n

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Two Russian servicemen \u2014 Dmitry Kurashov and Sergey Tuzhilov \u2014 received life sentences. The former was convicted of shooting a Ukrainian prisoner of war in the Zaporizhia region, the latter \u2014 for killing three captured Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of the Vovchansk aggregate plant.<\/p>\n

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Also among the convicted are Russian military personnel who bombed Kharkiv, shelled residential buildings from tanks, and engaged in looting in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.<\/p>\n

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The project “Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People” emphasizes that even despite prisoner exchanges, the facts of war crimes have been recorded by decisions of Ukrainian courts, and the perpetrators have been officially recognized as convicted.<\/p>\n

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Since the start of the full-scale war, Ukrainian courts have handed down 14 in-person sentences to captured Russian Federation servicemen for committing war crimes. This is reported by the project “Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People” . Since 2022, Ukraine has brought to criminal responsibility and sentenced 14 Russian citizens who served in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":840624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1346313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346313","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}