Article of the Criminal Code:
Roman Nechyporenko 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 in May 2022.
On 17 March 2026, Nechyporenko was added to the so-called list of extremists and terrorists maintained by the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service.
On 29 April 2026, Judge Andrei Minashkin of the Southern District Military Court found Roman Nechyporenko 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 an unknown term of imprisonment.
On 23 October 2026, he returned to Ukraine as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange.
