A Finnish court has sentenced a Russian citizen, Voislav Torden, a 38-year-old Russian ultranationalist earlier known as Yan Petrovsky, to life in prison for war crimes committed during the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was found guilty on four of five charges related to the ambush,

A Helsinki court has sentenced Russian neo-Nazi and former paramilitary commander Yan Petrovsky to life in prison on four counts of war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine, Finnish broadcaster YLE reported on Friday.

HELSINKI - A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish court on Friday for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured soldier.

Yan Petrovsky, co-leader of the Rusich paramilitary unit, was convicted of war crimes in Luhansk Oblast on Sept. 5, 2014, during Russia's invasion of Donbas.

In a rare case of prosecution, Yan Petrovsky, also known as Voislav Torden, was convicted for activities in Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine a decade ago.

Voislav Torden, of Russian far-right group Rusich, is found guilty of charges relating to an ambush which killed 22.

Russian Voislav Torden, born as Yan Petrovsky, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Helsinki District Court.

Voislav Torden, a commander of the Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group Rusich, was found guilty on Friday of 'four different war crimes' committed in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.