A member of the Ukrainian national battalion was detained in Crimea. writes about this RIA News According to FSB data.
The message stated that a Russian citizen born in 1988, who was a member of the illegal armed formation “Crimean Tatar Battalion named after Noman Celebidzhikhan”, was detained.
It is known that the man has been in an illegal gang since 2015. He guarded the battalion’s facilities and also inspected people at the border between Ukraine and Russia.
Prior to this the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) prisoner Ten soldiers from the Azov regiment (an organization banned in Russia) in case of bombing of Mariupol in the spring of 2022.
According to the investigation, the defendants fired 120-mm mortars at houses and socially important civilian infrastructure facilities in the city in March-April 2022. It was recorded that the defendants fired at least 100 mortar shots with high-explosive fragmentation bullets and damaged three houses.
The defendants were sentenced to sentences ranging from 22 years and 2 months to 22 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony.
Previously an Azov militant in absentia prisoner 28 years in prison for cruelty to civilians.