⚖️ 15 russian servicemen were sentenced to 12 years in prison for brutal treatment of civilians in the village of Yaghidnoye in Chernihiv Oblast

🔷According to the public indictment of the prosecutors of the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, they were found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war.

🔹Each of them was in absentia sentenced to 12 years in prison.

🔹It has been proven that at the beginning of March 2022, the military forces of the Russian Federation, being in the occupied village. Yagidne district of Chernihiv district, 368 people, including 69 minors, were deprived of their liberty and forcibly kept in the basement of the Yagidne school as "human shields".

🔹Thus, local residents were used to cover the command post from possible offensive actions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🔹Due to inhuman conditions of detention and failure to provide necessary medical care, 10 civilians died in the "cellar of death".

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