Finland arrests Russian ultra-nationalist wanted in Ukraine for war crimes — Meduza
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Finnish police have arrested Russian ultra-nationalist Yan Petrovsky, the Finnish television channel MTV3 reported on Friday.

Finnish police have arrested the Russian Yan Petrovsky, a leader of neo-Nazi paramilitary group “Task Force Rusich,” who is wanted in Ukraine on suspicion of committing war crimes in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014–2015. According to media reports, Kyiv has already requested Petrovsky’s extradition.

  • barsoap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Update. Later on Friday, Rusich announced on its Telegram channel that the task force is halting “any combat missions” until “Slavyan” (Petrovsky) is extradited to Russia.

    Neat.