Finnish court finds Russian mercenary guilty of war crimes in Ukraine

A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison.

Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was found guilty on four of five charges related to the ambush, murder, and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers and distributing denigrating photos of the dead soldiers online. He was acquitted of a charge regarding the planning of the ambush.