Lieutenant Colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sentenced for abusing prisoners
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A DPR court sentenced a Ukrainian Armed Forces lieutenant colonel in absentia to 16 years in prison for abusing prisoners of war
The press service of the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office (GVP) of the Russian Federation reports that the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison the deputy commander of a military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Sergei Burkovsky for beating Russian prisoners of war.
The press service report states that the court agreed with the position of the state prosecutor, who was a representative of the military prosecutor’s office of the United Group of Forces, and found Burkovsky guilty under Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“deliberate infliction of harm to health based on political, ideological, national enmity, with the use of weapons”) and part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“cruel treatment of prisoners of war”). It is noted that the lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sentenced to 16 years in prison to serve the sentence in a maximum security penal colony.
The investigation established that at the end of March – beginning of April last year, Burkovsky, being on the territory of a military unit stationed in the city of Nizhyn, Chernigov region of Ukraine, feeling hostility towards five captured Russian military personnel, insulted them, used physical violence, beating prisoners of war with his hands and feet, and also using bladed weapons and firearms as weapons of crime.
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