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Chubetidze Georgy Merabovich

Date of birth: February 14, 1983 (43 years old)
citizenship: Грузия
Occupation: военная служба
Article of the Criminal Code:  359 ч. 3 ; 317
Form of repression:  pre-trial detention
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Sentence:  пожизненное лишение свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 11, 2026
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)

Georgy Chubetidze is a Georgian citizen. According to unconfirmed reports, he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 2016 to 2019, then returned to Tbilisi, where he was soon put on the wanted list for participating in protests and returned to Ukraine. There, Chubetidze was arrested for fighting and, while in pretrial detention, re-signed with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He was captured near Kremennaya, allegedly on November 12, 2023. Videos of his interrogations were actively used by Russian state media for anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Chubetidze was sentenced to life imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony on charges of mercenarism and attempted murder of a serviceman.

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