The 2nd Western District Military Court, located in Moscow, sentenced 42-year-old Ukrainian Vladimir Parafilo, captured in the Kursk region, to life imprisonment, the Investigative Committee reported.
Parafilo was captured in December last year near Sudzha — in the village of Kamyshovka near the village of Russkoye Porechnoye.
According to the investigation, on December 20, 2024, Parafilo, armed with an AK-74 rifle and grenades, illegally crossed the border of the Russian Federation with his comrades. Following an order from his commander with the call sign “Antoshka” to inspect the area, Parafilo and three of his comrades found a 55-year-old woman in one of the houses. They tortured her with a stun gun, then raped and killed her. Additionally, Parafilo shot a civilian who tried to help the woman. Wanting to hide the traces of the crime, the Ukrainian servicemen lowered the bodies into the basement and blew it up.
The evidence of guilt was the testimony of the head of the Porechensky village council of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, who told military investigators “about the consequences of the illegal invasion of Ukrainian militants and the crimes known to her against the civilian population.”
At the same time, as noted by “Mediazona”*, in a video published on the Telegram channel of the Russian troops group “Sever,” Parafilo stated on camera that “he did not kill anyone in the Kursk region” — “only in [Bakhmut] of the Donetsk region, one man there.”
However, according to the first version of the Investigative Committee, on December 20, Parafilo “from behind” shot a passerby on the street in Russkoye Porechnoye, “a man in civilian clothes,” “following the orders of his commander with the call sign ‘Antoshka.’”
Subsequently, Parafilo was added charges of sexualized violence, and another victim appeared in the case — a 55-year-old woman.
The court found Parafilo guilty of committing a terrorist act in the Kursk region, rape by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, and committing violent sexual acts, sentencing him to life imprisonment.
On January 16, a representative of the Ukrainian authorities in the Kursk region, Alexei Dmitrashkovsky, in an interview with Deutsche Welle* said that a total of 112 civilians died during the Ukrainian occupation of the Sudzhansky district, 36 of whom were victims of Russian shelling. Another 40, Dmitrashkovsky claimed, died “of heart attacks.” He did not specify what happened to the remaining 36.
* Recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent.”
Photo: Mediazona