Ukrainian POW Andrii Zdorenko died while his trial was underway in the ‘DPR’

Ukrainian prisoner of war Andrii Zdorenko died no later than September 3, 2025, according to the case card on the website of the occupation ‘Supreme Court of the DPR.’

This date is listed as the date on which his case was terminated due to his death.

Zdorenko was 39 years old. He served as a driver in the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade ‘Zaporizhzhia Sich.’ A pro-Russian Telegram channel published a video in May 2025, in which Zdorenko says he was captured on May 21, 2022, in Mariupol.

Five other prisoners of war were defendants in the same criminal case: Vitalii Bochkovyi, Oleksandr Dolyniak, Nikita Korobytsyn, Dmytro Leontiev, and Dmytro Stryzhevskyi. On December 11, 2025, Judge Aleksei Kovalenko handed down sentences ranging from 23 years and 2 months to 23 years and 9 months in a maximum-security penal colony.

According to the ‘DPR prosecutor’s office,’ the defendants shelled the settlements of Stary Krym, Volodarske, and the village of Berdianske from a combat position in Mariupol, resulting in the deaths of two civilians and injuries to two others.