A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was found guilty on four of five charges related to the ambush,

Finnish court sentences Russian paramilitary to life imprisonment for war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

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

Voislav Torden, a commander in a Russian paramilitary group, was sentenced to life in prison for the attack and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

Voislav Torden, a commander of the Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group Rusich, was found guilty on Friday of 'four different war crimes' committed in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.

The Helsinki District Court has sentenced Voislav Torden, a Russian national, to life imprisonment for four war crimes. The prosecutor had sought a life sentence for Torden on five counts of war crimes, but the district court dismissed one of the charges.

Voislav Torden, of Russian far-right group Rusich, is found guilty of charges relating to an ambush which killed 22.

The Finnish state was ordered last summer to pay Gibril Massaquoi some 390,000 euros in damages because he spent over 700 days in prison before his acquittal.

In a rare case of prosecution, Yan Petrovsky, also known as Voislav Torden, was convicted for activities in Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine a decade ago.

A Finnish court has sentenced a Russian citizen, Voislav Torden, a 38-year-old Russian ultranationalist earlier known as Yan Petrovsky, to life in prison for war crimes committed during the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014.