Samokhvalov Serhii Anatoliiovych

Serhii Samokhvalov — a Ukrainian citizen and serviceman of the Azov Special Operations Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was captured in Donetsk Oblast, presumably, on June 1, 2022.

On April 14, 2026, Serhii Samokhvalov was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s so-called list of extremists and terrorists.

On May 4, 2026, Samokhvalov’s case was transferred to the Southern District Military Court. On May 29, 2026, Judge Igor Petrovich Degtyaryov (a different judge is named in the table) found Serhii Samokhvalov 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 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities”) and sentenced him to 18 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

On September 29, 2026, Judge Maksim Aleksandrovich Panin of the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence.