Baraniuk in captivity. Photo: Media Initiative for Human Rights website
The so-called Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic has sentenced Colonel Volodymyr Baraniuk, commander of Ukraine's 36th Separate Marine Brigade, along with his deputies Dmytro Karmiankov and Vitalii Yaroshenko, and 501st Marine Battalion commander Mykola Biriukov, to life imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.
Source: Russian Investigative Committee; Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR)
Details: Russia's "investigation" claimed that in 2022 "with the aim of violently retaining the power of the Kyiv regime in Mariupol, the defendants organised the encirclement of the northern part of the city."
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