The Berdyansk City District Court sentenced the defendants in the case of the murder of a former volunteer of the Donbass battalion Vitaly Oleshko (call sign Sarmat) in July 2018. Only the man who, according to the investigation, shot the victim, received a real prison sentence.
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It is reported that the court of first instance sentenced shooter Artem Matyushin to 11 years in prison. He can appeal the sentence within 30 days.
It is also reported that all other defendants who were involved in the case did not receive real terms. Mikhail Sigidu, Yevgeny Brodsky, Viktor Vlasyuk and possible accomplices of Nikolai Lomaku, Alexander Obukhov, Maxim Vladimirenkov, Taras Movchan, Denis Zelenkin, suspected of organizing the crime, were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
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