Yevhen Krasnikov 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 6 April 2022.
On 5 February 2026, Yevhen Krasnikov was added to the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service's so-called list of extremists and terrorists.
On 26 February 2026, Krasnikov's case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On 20 March 2026, Judge Igor Petrovich Degtyaryov found Yevhen Krasnikov 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 18 years' imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony.
On 6 July 2026, Judge Aleksei Vasilyevich Koshkoryov of the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence.
