Current Time correspondent
A Finnish court has convicted a Russian former far-right militia member of committing war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donbas region in 2014. The Helsinki court sentenced Voislav Torden, also known as Yan Petrovsky, to life in the unusual case.
A Finnish district court has convicted a Russian man of war crimes in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 and sentenced him to life in prison.
Some of the Russians who have poured into Finland since the war on Ukraine was launched in 2022 are learning a new profession: carpentry. The Nordic country has also targeted Russian exiles and closed its border in response to waves of people trying to escape an economy hobbled by sanctions.
