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Puentes Borges Pablo

Date of birth: April 12, 1992 (34 years old)
citizenship: Колумбия
City of residence: неизвестно
Occupation: военная служба; медицина
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  28 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 5 лет в тюрьме, штраф 1.000.000 рублей
Date of sentencing:  June 10, 2025
Current location:  unknown

Pablo Puentes Borges is a Colombian citizen who served in the army, working as a security guard and ambulance driver. He arrived in Ukraine in response to a search for paramedics and served in the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As part of his unit, he entered the Kursk oblast, where he became lost in the forest after a drone attack and surrendered to Russian troops on January 9, 2025. Russian investigators charged him with mercenary activity, illegal border crossing, weapons smuggling, and terrorism. He was sentenced to 28 years.