A thirty-eight-year-old Russian national, Voislav Torden, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Finnish court for committing war crimes in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

 

Though he denies the allegations, Torden, a senior member of the Russian far-right mercenary group Rusich, was  found guilty of four charges by a court in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, while he was acquitted of a fifth charge.

 

The charges relate to an ambush and firefight that occurred in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, which killed twenty-two Ukrainian soldiers and injured four others.