Two more Russian occupiers received prison sentences for war crimes

A court in the Poltava region sentenced Russian soldiers Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov to 11 years and 6 months in prison each.

They were found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war. They were accused of shelling the Kharkov region. Both pleaded guilty.

The court accused Private Alexander Bobykin and Corporal Alexander Ivanov of shelling civilian infrastructure in the Kharkiv region. Both of them are from the Murmansk region, Ivanov was the gunner of the Grad multiple rocket launcher, Bobykin was the driver of the loading vehicle.

It follows from the testimony of the defendants that they fired the first salvo from the territory of Russia on the night of February 23-24. Then they crossed the border of Ukraine and fired the second shot from its territory. They were told that they were shooting at Kharkiv, but they were not told anything about the consequences of the shots. According to the servicemen, their unit included 18 Grads, each of which fired 40 volleys, that is, more than 700 shots.