Russia plans to sentence 24 Azov residents to life imprisonment

Andryushchenko believes that this is Putin’s regime’s response to today’s hearings at the ISS, where the testimonies of Ukrainian children who were successfully returned home are being heard.

Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the chairman of Mariupol, said that on September 27 in Rostov-on-Don, the trial of 24 soldiers from the “Azov” regiment, eight of them women, who worked as cooks in the battalion, is taking place. He noted that they plan to sentence them to life imprisonment precisely for the fact that they defended Ukraine.

“They are charged with Article 278 (“forcible seizure of power”) and Article 205.5 (“participation in a terrorist organization”) of the Criminal Code, Andryushchenko said. this, then here is the final bottom”.

According to Andryushchenko, this is the response of Vladimir Putin’s regime to the hearing at the Hague International Criminal Court. Today, they interviewed children who were abducted by the Russians from Temporarily Occupied Mariupol, but who were later returned.

“I sincerely hope for publicity. Because Russia is not afraid of anything else. But publicity is still working,” Andryushchenko stressed.