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Ukraine issues for the first time a conviction for war crimes committed in Crimea during the Euromaidan

MADRID, 28 Dic.

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Ukraine issues for the first time a conviction for war crimes committed in Crimea during the Euromaidan

MADRID, 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A Ukrainian court has handed down the first convictions for war crimes committed in Crimea during the Euromaidan -- the protests that led to the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, two former Ukrainian Intelligence Service (SBU) agents for kidnapping and torture

The defendants have been sentenced 'in absentia' this Wednesday to nine and ten years in prison for the kidnapping and torture in 2015 of Oleksander Kostenko.

The Prosecutor's Office maintains that the defendants began to collaborate with the Kremlin authorities once Crimea came under the administration of Moscow and they were transferred to the new security services of the peninsula.

In early 2015, the defendants kidnapped and then imprisoned Oleksander Kostenko, who was subjected to electrical torture, physical violence and threats" in order to obtain a confession from the victim of a crime he "did not commit", that of assault on a riot police officer.

Kostenko was sentenced by a Crimean "occupation court" to three and a half years in prison in the Russian city of Kirovo-Chepetskpor until he was released in August 2018, when he moved to kyiv, Ukrainian media detail.

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