Dmitry Bondarenko
Dmitry Bondarenko, born 1998, Buryatia. Charges: Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism, or justification of terrorism); “Dmitry Bondarenko's case of justification of terrorism”. Sentence (November 5, 2025): 13 years 6 months in a strict regime penal colony, the sentence was imposed taken together with his punishment in the… Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since April 6, 2026.
In brief
Sentence
13 years 6 months in a strict regime penal colony, the sentence was imposed taken together with his punishment in the first case
Upheld April 6, 2026
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism, or justification of terrorism
Full wording of the charges
In the court's opinion, while in the cell of the Federal Penitentiary Institution of Penal Colony No 8 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Buryatia, being an opponent of the established constitutional order and the authorities of the Russian Federation, a supporter and adherent of the Ukrainian paramilitary associations Azov, Right Sector and Aidar (recognised as terrorist organisations by decisions of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Southern District Military Court), in order to justify terrorism, during private conversations he publicly declared to his cellmates that he recognised the ideology of these terrorist organisations as correct, requiring support and emulation, condoning the activities of their participants.
Latest event
April 6, 2026 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
Dmitry Bondarenko's case of justification of terrorism
- Case number
- 1-204/2025
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Full summary
He is a citizen of Ukraine, originally from the Kiev region. In 2022, the Supreme Court of the "Donetsk People's Republic" tried him on the charges of forcible seizure of power and training to commit terrorist activities. Probably due to improper jurisdiction, in March 2023, the Military Court of Appeal sent the case for a new hearing. On December 6, 2023, the Southern District Military Court delivered a sentence on this case for the second time. Neither the substance of the charges nor the details of the sentence are known.
On November 5, 2025, Bondarenko was convicted in a new criminal case, which concerned justification of terrorism. According to the version of the law enforcers, while in the cell of penal colony No. 8 in Buryatia, during the conversation with other prisoners, he expressed support for the Ukrainian paramilitary associations Azov and Right Sector and the Aidar community. The court sentenced him to thirteen and a half years in a strict regime colony cumulative with his punishment in the first case.
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- Citizenship
- Ukraine
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