Leonid Horokhov is a Ukrainian citizen and a serviceman of the Azov Special Operations Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was presumably captured in Donetsk Region on 19 May 2022.
On 30 April 2026, Leonid Gorokhov was added to the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service's list of extremists and terrorists.
On 8 June 2026, Gorokhov's case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On 30 June 2026, Judge Igor Petrovich Degtyaryov found Leonid Gorokhov guilty under Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Russian Criminal Code ('Participation in the activities of a terrorist community') and Article 205.3 ('Training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities') and sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony.
