Militants from the Donetsk region and Crimea were imprisoned for collaborating with the Russian army

January 4, 2024

The SBU said that the court convicted three men – residents of the Donetsk region and Crimea, who joined the Russian troops and fought against the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by the 3rd Directorate of the SSU Main Directorate in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions in the city of Severodonetsk on Facebook and the telegram channel Donbas. Important.

“Two of them joined the occupation groups of the Southern Military District of Russia even before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the third – in July 2023. Two traitors from the Donetsk region attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Avdiivka and Bakhmut as part of the 114th separate motorized rifle brigade and the separate artillery brigade Kalmius. The third criminal acted in the ranks of the occupying 132nd motorized rifle brigade”,- the SSU said in a statement.

According to the Crimean Wind Reserve telegram channel, the convicted are Sergei Prokhorov, Alexander Anpilov and Andrei Pronin. All three were previously captured during the unsuccessful Russian assaults on Avdiivka and Novoselivka. Two of them received 15 years in prison, one – 12 years.