Three Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony for invading the Kursk region.

The court has handed down a verdict in a criminal case against three Ukrainian soldiers who invaded the Kursk region last November. This is stated on the website of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia on June 25.

"The servicemen of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of the armed formations of Ukraine, rifleman Alexander Petrechenko, Sergei Rukavytsya and machine gunner Vyacheslav Grabina, were found guilty under paragraphs a and b of part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Committing a terrorist act by a group of persons by prior agreement, which entailed the onset of grave consequences")," the statement said. in the press release of the department.

The court found that in November 2024, three militants in a Kozak armored car illegally invaded the Kursk region. The Ukrainian military transmitted information about Russian troops, intimidated civilians, and prevented the evacuation of the population.

The court sentenced each of them to 16 years in prison, with the first three years served in prison, and the rest in a high—security penal colony.

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On June 25, a court in the DPR sentenced a serviceman of the Azov regiment (an organization recognized as a terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation) to 21 years in prison for the attempted murder of a civilian in Mariupol. The court indicated that the defendant was on the line of contact in the courtyard of an apartment building on Engels Street in Mariupol, where he fired a machine gun at a civilian walking down the street, who was rescued.