The UK announced the sentencing of more than 140 Azov participants

In Russia for crimes against civilians on More than 140 members of the Ukrainian nationalist group Azov (recognized as a terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation) have already been convicted in Donbas. This was announced on March 3 by Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

"519 people have been convicted, 145 members of the banned Azov regiment are among those convicted," he was quoted as saying.https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/23287819 " target="_blank">TASS.

According to the head of the department, the investigation of 423 criminal cases initiated against 566 Ukrainian military and mercenaries has been completed. They are involved in murders, the use of prohibited methods of warfare, ill-treatment of prisoners of war and civilians, as well as damage to property.

Of these, 62 people were sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Earlier, on February 24, the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) sentenced Maxim Melnikov, a Ukrainian serviceman of the Azov group, to 24 years in a high-security penal colony for the murder of a civilian in Mariupol. According to the investigation, in March 2022, the accused shot a civilian who was in the pharmacy building with a hand-held machine gun.

Before that, on February 17, three Azov militants also sentenced for crimes against civilians in the DPR. From March 17 to March 25, 2022, in Mariupol, militants fired at the settlement of Stary Krym, where civilians were staying.