In Finland, the prosecutor's office demands life imprisonment
About it writes the Finnish edition of Yle. Thus, in the district court, Helsinki began an extraordinary process, where the defendant in war crimes was sits by Russian, Jan Petrovsk, who now calls himself as Volyslav Trdin. He is accused of five war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine in September 2014. The prosecutor's office requires life imprisonment. The lawyer of Torrden Haykki Lampel stated before the trial that Petrovsky-Tride would deny all accusations of war crimes.
"He is confident in this court. When he is heard, he thinks that the accusations will be removed at the time," the lawyer said. After the prosecutor's office read the prosecution, the lawyer briefly transferred the points that the occupier justified his innocence. What the accused of Jan Petrovsky's accusation of Petrovsky are related to his activities in the military group of the Russian Federation "Rusich", which fought against Ukraine on the side of the Russian Federation in Luhansk region.
The neo -Nazist considers the murder of 22 Ukrainian servicemen and wounded four on September 5, 2014, this group killed 22 Ukrainian military and four seriously injured. It is noted that Ukrainian defenders were captured because the Russians took advantage of the Ukrainian flag and seized a checkpoint. The group fired from the weapons on the Ukrainian column, and after the ambush, the invaders shot at least four wounded soldiers.
According to the prosecution, as the deputy commander of the Rusich unit, Petrovsky managed his subordinates and shot the Ukrainian military from a machine gun. In this situation, 21 soldiers died immediately and one later. Four fighters survived. According to the prosecution, the neo -Nazist also allowed his subordinates to cripple the incapacitated Ukrainian military, cutting out the symbol of the Rusich DSHRG on his face.
The occupier is also accused of mocking the body of a dead Ukrainian warrior, against which he posed in a photo that he spread on the network. Also, Petrovsky, as a deputy chief, published a message on the Internet and social networks, according to which the group will not show mercy under his actual leadership and will not take prisoners. Prosecutors' evidence of crimes mostly consists of videos taken at the scene.
The occupier photographed and published materials about his violent actions and activities in open sources on the Internet. As the defense of Petrovsky builds his line according to the words of defense, neither Petrovsky-Terden, nor DSHRG "Rusich" did not participate in the attack using the Ukrainian flag, but organized the attack allegedly battalion "Zorya".
Lamper's lawyer also stated that Torten was moving at the scene with a reporter and shooting a propaganda video for recruitment, not shooting at soldiers. According to Tarden, in the situation he was witnessing, 11 Ukrainian soldiers were killed from the rocket explosion. And the captives were not shot, but sent to the hospital. According to defense, none of the wounded Ukrainian military was cut out the symbol of "Rusich" on the cheek, and Jan Petrovsky did not participate in such an event.
According to Lampela, a soldier on the face on the ground had a piece of dirt, and blood was not dripped from his face. The defense also disagrees with the prosecutor about the photo taken at the crime scene, which, according to the prosecutor, humiliates the dead military. Lampel said that his client did not do anything in the picture that would offend the deceased.
According to the defense, the photo is a general appearance of the battlefield and on it the dead "depicts a small figure in the background. " According to the defense, a photo posted on the Internet is a fake, and the original photos are not available. Jan Petrovsky also denies that he photographed the commander and body of the dead soldier. The occupier also denies that he said in the propaganda video "Rusich" that he will not be captured by Ukrainian fighters.
He stated that the commander said it, not him. The lawyer also said that Petrovsky's work was to send the wounded to the medical institution. Special prosecutor Lilya Lymingoya stated that the question of whether Torten is the deputy commander of the Rusich group and whether he participated in events. Petrovsky will not be issued to Ukraine by the neonacist in Finland, as the suspect cannot be extradited to Ukraine.
Ukraine demanded from Finland the extradition of the occupier, but the Supreme Court decided that the request for extradition was not satisfied. The reason is the bad conditions of Ukrainian prisons and the assessment that Petrovsky will not receive a just court in Ukraine. The forden was caught in Finland in August last year, when the Border Service recognized him. It is included in the EU sanction list under its previous name and is forbidden to enter Finland.