The leader of the "DNR" group, Denis Pushylin, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for infringing on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and collaborative activities.
Pushylin was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison
As reported by the Prosecutor's office, Pushylin was sentenced in absentia to the maximum penalty — 15 years of imprisonment with the deprivation of the right to hold positions in the bodies of state power, state administration, and local self-government, related to the provision of public services, the performance of organizational-administrative and administrative-economic functions for 15 years and confiscation of property.
What is known about the collaborator Denis Pushylin
Pushylin became the second leader of the "DPR" in November 2018 after the assassination of the first leader, Aleksandr Zakharchenko.
According to the Prosecutor's office, in September 2022, the head of the "republic" illegally created on the territory of Donetsk region, Denys Pushylin, convened and held an extraordinary meeting of the fake "DPR" council.
At the meeting, the illegitimate body of deputies adopted the so-called law "on the referendum of the DPR on the issue of joining the Russian Federation." In the future, the leader repeatedly emphasized in the controlled media the need to join the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region to the Russian Federation. That is, he called for Russia to take over the territory of Ukraine.
In the end, based on the invalid act signed by the "head", an illegal "popular expression of will" was held in the temporarily occupied territories in the presence of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
On September 30, 2022, the convict signed an "agreement" with the president of the aggressor state on the entry of the quasi-republic and the newly occupied territories of the Donetsk region into the federation, allegedly with the rights of a subject.
On February 24, 2022, under the pretext of protecting the "DNR" from the "Kyivan regime", the Russian army launched a so-called "special operation".
