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Liashuk Artem Mykhailovych

Date of birth: August 7, 1994 (32 years old)
citizenship: Украина
Occupation: военная служба
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.3 ; 205.4 ч. 2
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  May 17, 2022
Sentence:  срок неизвестен
Date of sentencing:  February 12, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 4, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Magadan Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Artem Liashuk is a citizen of Ukraine and a serviceman of the "Azov" special forces brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was taken prisoner in Donetsk Oblast, presumably on May 17, 2022.

On September 27, 2024, Liashuk's case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On February 12, 2025, Judge Sakit Eskerkhanovich Lachinov found Artem Liashuk 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 ("Undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activity"), and sentenced him to an unknown term of imprisonment.

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