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Ivan Bezlepkin
Biography
He was born in Russia’s Rostov Region and worked in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region. Bezlepkin was charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist organization and placed in pretrial detention. According to investigators, he took part in combat operations against civilians and servicemen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) while serving with the Donbass–Ukraine battalion. On February 11, 2025, he was sentenced to five years and ten months in a general-regime penal colony.
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