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Zinchenko Leonid Mykolaiovych

Zinchenko Leonid Mykolaiovych, born on August 11, 1955, is a Ukrainian citizen and a resident of the village of Chmyrivka, Starobilsk District, Luhansk Region. He is a pensioner and a former serviceman of the 24th Separate Assault Battalion Aidar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On October 16, 2025, he was convicted under Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Participation in a terrorist community”) and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in a general-regime correctional colony. He has been deprived of liberty since an unknown date.