< p>In Finland, a citizen of the Russian Federation was detained, who in 2014 participated in military clashes on the territory of Ukraine as part of the pro-Kremlin sabotage and assault intelligence group Rusich.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, on the basis of a request, on August 23, 2023, the competent authorities of Finland detained a Russian citizen who is wanted by the SBU on suspicion of participation in a terrorist organization.
As part of cooperation with Europol, the Office of the Prosecutor General received information about the detention of 36 -year-old Russian in the city of Helsinki by the Finnish Migration Service, as well as information about the possibility of his deportation to the Russian Federation.
However, the prosecutors sent a request to the relevant Finnish authorities for detention, temporary arrest, providing the Finnish side with all the necessary information. If the suspect returned to Russia, then it would make it impossible to extradite him to Ukraine.
According to open sources, this is a militant of the pro-Moscow DShRG, Yana Petrovsky, with the call sign Slavyan, who was left in custody by a court in Finland today, August 25.
In 2016, he was informed of suspicion on the fact of participation in a terrorist organization (part 1 of article 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The initiator of the search has prepared the materials necessary for his extradition.
The DShRG Rusich, which is fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Russian Federation, has already been informed that they are now ceasing to carry out any combat missions. They said that the situation with Petrovsky should be resolved “in the right direction”, that is, extradite him to Russia, not Ukraine.
The terrorist DShRG Rusich is known for numerous executions of prisoners. In particular, the militants cut the throat and cut off the head of the prisoner. Rusich's ringleader Aleksey Milchakov himself repeatedly called for the killing of not only prisoners of war, but all Ukrainians, including small children.
