
Prosecutors in Finland filed charges Thursday over alleged war crimes in 2014 by a combatant who fought against Ukrainian forces in a Russian-backed separatist region of Ukraine.
The National Prosecution Authority did not identify the suspect when announcing the five charges Thursday in a statement, but Finnish media outlets have identified him as Russian national Yan Petrovsky, who had been living in Finland under the alias Voislav Torden. The suspect has denied involvement in the crimes.