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.

Investigations revealed that in 2022, to maintain the Kiev regime’s control over Mariupol, the defendants organized a ring blockade of the city’s northern sector

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…