The Azov militant who shot a resident of Mariupol in the head received 23.5 years.

A court has sentenced a militant of the nationalist Azov battalion (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), who shot a resident of Mariupol in the head, to 23.5 years in prison. This was reported on June 4 in the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC RF).

It is specified that in 2022 Daniil Ovcharenko in Mariupol shot a civilian in the head with a pistol, as a result of which the man died.

"[Ovcharenko] was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 356 ("Ill-treatment of civilians, use of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation in an armed conflict") and paragraph "l" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder motivated by ideological and political hatred")", — follows from the publication in the Telegram channel.

The court sentenced the attacker to imprisonment for a term of 23.5 years to be served in a high-security penal colony.

Awaiting punishment: Russia is ready to involve the United States in the investigation of crimes of Ukrainians

Foreign observers can ensure transparency of all procedures.

Earlier, on June 2, a military court sentenced a colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in absentia Denis Diky is sentenced to life imprisonment. It was clarified that the soldier was accused of mining roads in the Kursk region, as a result of which several people died.