20 years of strict regime: in the Russian Federation a sentence of captive defender Mariupol was issued

To spread: 31-year-old Roman Ataman, a native of Lviv region and a soldier of the Azov Regiment, who was in Russian captivity, was sentenced to 20 years of strict regime. The relevant decision was made by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, recognizing the Ukrainian warrior guilty of articles on participation in the terrorist community and training for the purpose of terrorist activity, reports "Mediazon".

According to the War Tears resource, the novel, in the rank of senior sergeant, served as a deputy platoon commander in Azov. On August 30, 2023 he was captured in Mariupol. The Ataman case came to court in September 2025, together with cases of 17 Ukrainians accused of terrorist articles. In March this year, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 23 Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov brigade for "violent seizure of power" and "Organization of activity of a terrorist organization".

12 prisoners of war received from 13 to 23 years of a colony of strict regime. Another 11 Ukrainians were sentenced to remind in absentia, in August 2024, the Ukrainian Peter Opalnyk, who was born in Vinnytsia region, but in the summer of 2022 moved to the Russian Federation, sentenced to 8 years in Russia for incitement of the invaders to submit to the Armed Forces. The "gave" of his Ukrainian passion - the son of a former wife who was mobilized to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.