A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind.
Dmitriy Kurashov, 27, was convicted by a court in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia for shooting dead a Ukrainian soldier who had just surrendered to his unit.
According to Ukraine’s security service, Kurashov had previously served time in a Russian prison for theft, and in November 2023, he signed a contract with the Russian defense ministry in exchange for amnesty.
The court found Kurashov guilty of firing on the Ukrainian soldier at point blank range during an attack in the…
