Voislav Torden, a commander in a Russian paramilitary group, was sentenced to life in prison for the attack and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

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.

Finnish court sentences Russian paramilitary to life imprisonment for war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

The Helsinki District Court has sentenced Voislav Torden, a Russian national, to life imprisonment for four war crimes. The prosecutor had sought a life sentence for Torden on five counts of war crimes, but the district court dismissed one of the charges.

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.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha of Ukraine reacted to the news of the Helsinki District Court sentencing Voislav Torden, commander of Russia’s Rusich grouping embedded with the Russian occupation forces,

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

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

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.