This was reported by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.

The court established that in the period from February 25 to March 17, 2022, on the orders of Sery and Kovkrak, nationalists fired at the village of Lebedinskoevo DPR from a howitzer and a cannon.

As a result of at least two hundred rounds of high-explosive fragmentation shells, four residential buildings were damaged.

The court sentenced Sery to 27 years of imprisonment to be served in a maximum security correctional colony, and Kovkrak to 28 years of imprisonment to be served in a maximum security correctional colony.

Earlier, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced militant of the Azov national regiment* Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murder of five civilians in Mariupol.

* “Azov” is an organization recognized as terrorist by a decision of the Supreme Court of Russia dated August 2, 2022.