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.

The trial of Yan Petrovsky, also known as Voislav Torden, was a rare case of foreign prosecutors addressing war crimes from the anti-Kyiv insurgency that Moscow backed in eastern Ukraine ...

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 ...

The Helsinki court sentenced Voislav Torden, also known as Yan Petrovsky, to life in the unusual case.

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

As per Ukrinform, on Friday, the Helsinki District Court sentenced Rusich Commander Voislav Torden (aka Yan Petrovsky), 38, to life in prison on charges of war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014.