Ten more militants who fought against Ukraine as members of Russia-backed armed groups have been sentenced to 15 years in prison, with their property confiscated, based on evidence collected by the SBU's military counterintelligence and investigators.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said this in a statement seen by Ukrinform.
According to the case files, Ukrainian defenders captured the men during fighting in the Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk and Siversk sectors.
Seven of those sentenced are residents of the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region who, at various times, voluntarily joined the 1st, 5th, 100th, 114th and 132nd motor rifle brigades of the aggressor country's army.
Among them were riflemen, a flamethrower operator and a driver who took part in "meat grinder" assaults on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions near Pokrovsk.
