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.

A Helsinki court has sentenced Russian neo-Nazi and former paramilitary commander Yan Petrovsky to life in ... The case marks the first time that Finland has issued a verdict for war crimes in Ukraine ...

The trial of Yan Petrovsky, also known as Voislav ... an adequate punishment," the court said in its verdict. Petrovsky was detained in Finland at Ukraine's request in 2023 as he tried to travel ...

Torden was deported from Norway to Russia in 2016, where he took the name Voislav Torden instead of Yan Petrovsky. He entered Finland in 2023 as a family member of his wife, who had obtained a ...

Torden was targeted by EU sanctions under his other name Yan Petrovsky. He is banned from entering Finland. The EU said Petrovsky held the position of commander of the neo-Nazi reconnaissance and ...