The trial of the militant of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion “Azov”* Alexei Kyrkalov, banned in the Russian Federation, ended in the Supreme Court of the DPR. He was found guilty of murdering a Russian POW and sentenced to life imprisonment.
As it was established during the trial, on April 15 last year in Mariupol, Aleksey Krykalov, who had the call sign Fritz, found a room in the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine where soldiers of the Russian army were detained.
Fritz took one of them outside and shot him with a pistol. As one of the witnesses to the massacre explained during the investigation, Krykalov could not explain afterwards why he had done this.
Although the investigation succeeded in gathering a sufficient evidence base, Alexei Krykalov until the end denied his involvement in the murder of a Russian prisoner of war. However, such a line of defense did not help the Ukrainian activist escape punishment. The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic found him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Krykalov will serve his sentence in a strict regime penal colony.
Recall that the Russian army completely completed the liberation of Mariupol on May 20 last year. On this day, the last militants of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion “Azov”* surrendered to the Russian army. Subsequently, some of them were exchanged for Russian prisoners of war.
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- training recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation.
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