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A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was ...

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.

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