Valeryi Vodzin

Date of birth: 13 July 1999

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 295 of the Criminal Code — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives
  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
  • Art. 356 of the Criminal Code — High treason
  • Art. 289 of the Criminal Code — An act of terrorism
  • Art. 333-1 of the Criminal Code — Illegal cross-border transportation of poisonous, poisonous substances, radioactive materials, weapons, military equipment
  • Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen

Sentence: 20 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Siarhei Khrypach

Notes: Trials in absentia, War in Ukraine

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