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A military court in southern Russia sentenced a Ukrainian special forces soldier to 20 years in prison after he was captured during a
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District Court in Rostov-on-Don convicted Lyubas of terrorism, arms smuggling and illegally crossing the Russian border
He was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum-security prison.Lyubas denied the charges, saying in court that he should be treated as a prisoner
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