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Potapov Viacheslav Yevheniiovych

Date of birth: February 18, 1992 (34 years old)
citizenship: Украина
Occupation: военная служба
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.4 ч. 2 ; 205.3
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Sentence:  18 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима
Date of sentencing:  November 5, 2024
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for Volgograd Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Viacheslav Potapov 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 Mariupol no later than July 29, 2022.

On May 15, 2024, Potapov was added to Rosfinmonitoring's list of extremists and terrorists.

On November 5, 2024, Judge Timur Mashukov of the Southern District Military Court found him 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 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony.

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