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Mudryk Andrii Oleksandrovych

Date of birth: December 10, 1993 (32 years old)
citizenship: Украина
Occupation: военная служба
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.4 ч. 2 ; 205.3
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  May 16, 2022
Sentence:  20 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима
Date of sentencing:  June 24, 2026
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Andrii Mudryk is a Ukrainian citizen and a junior sergeant serving in the Azov Special Operations Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was presumably captured in Donetsk Region on 16 May 2022.

On 28 April 2026, Mudryk was added to the so-called list of extremists and terrorists maintained by the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

On 28 May 2026, Mudryk’s case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On 24 June 2026, Judge Igor Petrovich Degtyaryov found Andrii Mudryk 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.

On 2 November 2026, Judge Oleg Alexandrovich Yegorov of the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence.