The latest sentence handed down by a Czech court against men fighting for the Russian-controlled militants in eastern Ukraine may never be served as the 45-year-old was sentenced by the Ústí nad Labem Regional Court on 21 December in absentia to 15 years and he himself is still in Donbas. It is, nonetheless, important as the first time that a Czech court has found a person fighting for the militants guilty of terrorism. Russia’s attempts to legitimize its proxy ‘republics’ in Donbas are not working.
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Halya Coynash: Czech gets 15 years on terrorism charges for fighting for Russia-led forces
Members of a Cossack unit aligned with Russia-backed separatists near a bridge over the river Donets in Stanytsia Luhanska, just north of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, March 13, 2015.
