Corrector who fired a missile at a pizzeria in Kramatorsk gets life sentence
13 people were killed, including 14-year-old sisters Yulia and Anya Aksenchenko and writer Victoria Amelina
A man accused by the SBU of launching a rocket attack on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk in June 2023 has been sentenced to life in prison.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine announced that Kramatorsk resident Volodymyr Sinelnik was sentenced to life in prison with confiscation of property. It was not reported in which court the trial took place.
A Russian Iskander missile strike on a building in the centre of Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023 killed 13 people, including 14-year-old sisters Yulia and Anya Aksenchenko and writer Victoria Amelina, who had brought three guests from Colombia: a politician, a writer and a journalist to Kramatorsk, the administrative centre of the government-controlled part of Donetsk region.
The Colombians were injured, as were more than 60 other people.
According to the prosecutor's office and the SBU, Sinelnik, an employee of a gas company, was recruited by Russian intelligence and asked to check information about the presence of military personnel in the Ria Pizza pizzeria in Kramatorsk.
Sinelnyk saw military vehicles in the car park near the building, filmed them and sent them to his Russian handlers, after which the building was hit by a ballistic missile.
Background. As a reminder, the SBU detained an enemy accomplice who was passing information about the Ukrainian Armed Forces to her son, a DNR militant.
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