Yan Petrovsky
Yan Petrovsky, also known by his call sign Voien, is a Russian-national of Norwegian origin who served as a commander of the Rusich reconnaissance unit within the Russian armed forces. He was detained in Ukraine in 2022. In 2023 a Finnish court sentenced him to life imprisonment for war crimes committed in Ukraine; in 2025 a Finnish appeals court reduced the sentence to 12.5 years.
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Finland court cuts Rusich co-founder Torden's war crimes sentence from life to 12.5 years
Finland's Helsinki Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of Voislav Torden (Yan Petrovsky), co-founder of the Russian neo-Nazi Rusich group, from life imprisonment to 12.5 years for war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014. The court dismissed several charges, including command responsibility and the personal-killing charge, while confirming other war crimes including firing on Ukrainian soldiers and distributing photographs of a burned Ukrainian soldier's body.