The Helsinki Court of Appeal reduced former Rusich commander Yan Petrovsky’s life sentence to 12 years and six months, finding him guilty of three war crimes against Ukraine.

The Helsinki Court of Appeal reduced former Rusich commander Yan Petrovsky’s life sentence to 12 years and six months, finding him guilty of three war crimes against Ukraine.

The former member of the far-right Rusich paramilitary group was handed a life sentence by the Helsinki district court last year.