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.

In 2022, an explosion at a Russian penal colony killed dozens of surrendered Ukrainian soldiers. Families are still fighting for justice.

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.

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

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.