Azov militants were convicted in Donetsk for mortar shelling of the DPR. Andrei Plitus, Gennady Sukharnikov and Dmitry Predborsky were found guilty under Part 3 of Art.

30, Criminal Code of Russia. “Azov” is an organization recognized as terrorist by a decision of the Supreme Court of Russia dated August 2, 2022. Earlier, the Supreme court of the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced militant of the Azov national regiment* Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murder of five civilians in Mariupol.