Terrorist Girkin (Strelkov) was sentenced to a real term in Russia
In Moscow, terrorist Igor Girkin (Strelkov) was sentenced to a real term in a general regime colony.
Terrorist Igor Girkin (Strelkov) has been sentenced by a Moscow city court to four years in a general regime colony in a case over calls to extremism on the Internet. This is reported by the Russian media.
Girkin was also banned from administering websites and pages in social networks. The prosecution requested 4 years and 11 months in a general regime colony.
Igor Girkin was detained on 21 July 2023 and sent to a pre-trial detention centre because of posts in his Telegram channel, in which the FSB found calls for extremism.
Girkin himself asked to be sent under house arrest because of diagnosed angina pectoris of the second degree and the need to take medication.
Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, born 17 December 1970 in Moscow, is a Russian terrorist, military officer, war criminal, blogger, White Movement ideologue, writer, retired officer of the Russian Armed Forces, and former FSB colonel.
Participant of the Russian war against Ukraine in Crimea, Donbass and during the invasion of 2022 on the side of Russia, as well as a number of other wars: in Transnistria (Moldova), Bosnia, Chechnya. Head of the terrorist group Novorossiya since 2014, head of the "25 January Committee". Former leader of the terrorist pro-Russian military group "People's Militia of Donbass".
After the start of the Russian intervention in Crimea, Girkin headed a sabotage squad and organised a gathering of Crimean MPs to appoint an illegal referendum.
In April 2014, with his detachment, he crossed the Ukrainian border in Donetsk region and led the capture of Slavyansk, thus starting the fighting in Donbass. He became the first "Minister of Defence" of the puppet "DNR". In August 2014, simultaneously with the start of the invasion of Donbas by Russian regular troops, he left for Russia.
The Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine filed cases against Girkin for terrorism, violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, torture and premeditated murder.