Article of the Criminal Code:
Oleksandr Kulius — a Ukrainian citizen and colonel serving in the Azov Special Operations Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was captured in Mariupol, presumably, on May 17, 2022.
On March 20, 2026, Kulius was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s so-called list of extremists and terrorists.
On May 7, 2026, Kulius’s case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On June 5, 2026, Judge Nikolay Yuryevich Vasilchuk found Oleksandr Kulius 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 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities”) and sentenced him to an unspecified term of imprisonment.
On October 15, 2026, Judge Vladimir Ivanovich Serebryansky of the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence.
