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Natalia Golfiner
Former military personnel
1974-01-09
Не в России
Rostov-on-Don
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She was the head of the food warehouse in the Ukrainian regiment "Azov" from April 2019 to 15 January 2022. After the war started, she refused to go to work. She was detained in Mariupol on 7 April 2022. She was accused of organising the activities of a terrorist organisation and forcible seizure and retention of power. Human rights activists note that she is a prisoner of war, so she should not have been held criminally liable for combat participation, and in addition, they consider the charges absurd.
On 13 September 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Golfiner was returned
She was the head of the food warehouse in the Ukrainian regiment "Azov" from April 2019 to 15 January 2022. After the war started, she refused to go to work. She was detained in Mariupol on 7 April 2022. She was accused of organising the activities of a terrorist organisation and forcible seizure and retention of power. Human rights activists note that she is a prisoner of war, so she should not have been held criminally liable for combat participation, and in addition, they consider the charges absurd.
On 13 September 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Golfiner was returned to Ukraine as part of an exchange. On 26 March 2025, she was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison.
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