15 Ukrainian military personnel were convicted in Rostov-on-Don.

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The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 15 servicemen of the Ukrainian battalion to terms ranging from 15 to 21 years.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in September the state prosecutor requested that 18 fighters of the Aidar Battalion, designated a terrorist organization in Russia, be sentenced to terms ranging from 20 to 24 years.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 15 On October 17, Kommersant reported that servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were found guilty of participating in a terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code) and attempting to violently seize power (Article 278 of the Russian Criminal Code). The court found that Andrei Sholik, Vyacheslav Baidyuk, Vitaly Krokhalev, Dmitry Fedchenko, Nikolai Chuprina, Vitaly Gruzinov, Taras Radchenko, Semyon Zabayrachny, Sergey Nikityuk, Igor Gayokha, Alexander Taranets, Vladimir Makarenko, Roman Nedostup, Vladislav Yermolinsky, and Sergey Kalinchenko joined the Aidar Battalion (designated a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) at various times. The cases of three other defendants—Yevgeny Pyatigorets, Marina Mishchenko, and Liniya Prutyan—were separated into separate proceedings at the prosecution's request.

It was established that 11 defendants had undergone special training as part of the battalion, learning various disciplines and how to handle weapons and explosive devices. Six of them had already participated in combat before joining the battalion, and three had received additional training at Ukrainian Armed Forces training centers.

Only two defendants pleaded guilty. Sholik, Baidyuk, and Krokhalev were sentenced to 16 years in prison; Fedchenko to 15 years; Chuprina, Radchenko, Zabayrachny, Nikityuk, Taranets, and Yermolinsky to 20 years; Gayokha and Makarenko to 18 years; and Gruzinov, Nedostup, and Kalinchenko to 21 years. The lawyers announced they would appeal the verdict to the military appeals court. Specifically, according to one of the lawyers, the Geneva Convention should apply to the convicted men; many of them are not combatants, they are not accused of war crimes, and they did not commit acts that could be classified as war crimes. They also claimed that they were simply members of a military formation belonging to a country participating in the conflict.