According to the public indictment of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the court found four citizens of Ukraine guilty of treason, participation in a terrorist organization and the activities of armed groups not provided for by law (Part 1 of Article 111, Part 1 of Article 258-3, Part 2 of Article 260 Criminal Code of Ukraine).
They were sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of all property.
The prosecutors proved that the convicts – residents of Luhansk Region in February 2022, before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, voluntarily switched to the side of the enemy and joined the illegal paramilitary formation of the so-called “LPR”.
After the start of the armed aggression, they performed combat missions on the territory of the Kharkiv region.
At the beginning of September 2022, during hostilities on the line of direct armed conflict, they were taken prisoner as part of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the SBU Directorate in the Lviv region.
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Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office