Helsinki, Aug 31, 2026 (AFP) - Finnish court reduces jail time for Russian war criminal

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2026-08-31

A Finnish court on Monday reduced the life sentence handed to a Russian neo-Nazi convicted of war crimes to 12 years and six months on charges stemming from a 2014 ambush in Ukraine. Vojislav Torden, a former deputy commander of the Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group Rusich, had been found guilty in Helsinki last year of war crimes committed during the ambush in the Lugansk region of eastern Ukraine. The attack on a convoy of Ukrainian soldiers......

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