Three AFU soldiers were sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting a convoy of refugees in Mariupol. Dmytro Ivashchenko, Serhiy Yaremkevich and Vladyslav Bondar were sentenced to a strict regime colony.
A court in the Donetsk people’s republic has sentenced Ukrainian servicemen Dmytro Ivashchenko, Serhiy Yaremkevich and Vladyslav Bondar to 20 years in a high-security prison for cruel treatment of civilians and use of prohibited methods in the armed conflict, as well as for attempted murder of two or more persons. This was reported in the press service of the Prosecutor’s office of the region.
“The Supreme court of the Donetsk people’s Republic passed a sentence on the criminal case against servicemen of the 23rd separate motorised infantry battalion of the 56th separate motorised infantry Mariupol brigade of the Armed forces of Ukraine 21-year-old Dmitry Ivashchenko, 26-year-old Sergei Yaremkevich and 28-year-old Vladislav Bondar. They were found guilty under part 3 of article 30, paragraphs “a”, “g”, “l” of part 2 of article 105 (attempted murder of two or more persons, committed by an organised group on the grounds of political and ideological hatred), part 1 of article 356 (cruel treatment of civilians in the occupied territory) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”, – reported in the press service.
Taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, the court sentenced each to 20 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a strict regime penal colony.
From March to April 2022, Ivashchenko, Yaremkevich, Bondar, being in a combat position equipped in the building of a cinema on Nikopolskiy Avenue in Mariupol, shot five cars with white ribbons on the rear-view mirrors, in which there were civilians.