Two Russian soldiers were sentenced on Tuesday to more than a decade in prison each for “violating the laws of war."
Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov pleaded guilty at hearings last week before receiving their 11- and-a-half-year sentences as the war in Ukraine heads into its fourth month.
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"The court found no evidence of coercion. The defendants pleaded guilty. The court ruled that their guilt has been fully proven," said the court in an online livestream of the hearing in the Poltava region, according to CNN.
The two soldiers had been accused of firing rockets from Russia’s Belgorod region toward the Ukrainian city Kharkiv at the start of the war. They fired artillery that damaged "objects of civil and critical infrastructure, including private homes" in the Kharkiv region, which is where they were later captured by Ukrainian forces.
They are not the only Russian soldiers who have been sentenced for actions in Ukraine.
Last week, 21-year-old Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of an unarmed 62-year-old Ukrainian man in late February in a village in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office is currently investigating more than 13,000 cases of alleged war crimes. The International Criminal Court is also investigating possible war crimes, while the United States and many other nations are helping the Ukrainians.