The verdict was passed in absentia
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Plotnitsky and two other separatists were convicted in absentia for shooting down a Ukrainian IL-76 with 49 people on board in 2014.
The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of Dnipro has sentenced the former head of the “LPR” Igor Plotnitsky and two separatists Alexander Gureev and Andrey Patrushev in the case of the shooting down of an Il-76 plane at the Luhansk airport in 2014, when 49 people died. It is reported by Court reporter on Tuesday, March 16.
All three were tried in absentia under Article 258 of the Criminal Code – a terrorist attack.
It is noted that for more than five years the case was in the courts, and on March 15 and 16, a verdict of 100 pages was read out in court.
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At the time of the crime, Plotnitsky was the commander of the illegal armed formation Zarya, Patrushev was his deputy, and Gureev was the commander of the illegal armed formation Vityaz.
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According to the court’s decision, Plotnitsky was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Patrushev and Gureev received the same sentences.
We will remind, on June 14, 2014 over the Luhansk region separatists shot down an Il-76MD… Onboard there were 40 servicemen of the 25th separate paratrooper brigade and nine crew members. All died.-
Soon, Major General Viktor Nazarov, who at the time of the tragedy was the chief of staff of the anti-terrorist operation, was accused of neglecting his service in a combat situation, which led to dire consequences.
Nazarov March 27, 2017 sentenced to seven years conclusions. However, the court did not deprive him of his military rank. The general appealed the verdict, but the appeal the court upheld the verdict.
As you know, the ex-head of the “LPR” lives in his own cottage in an elite village near Moscow.
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