Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova. Archival photoMOSCOW, Apr 27 Pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was attacked in connection with a special operation in Ukraine, Russian human rights ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova said. United States of Trevor Reid against Russian Konstantin Yaroshenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters earlier. March 2022, the wife of Konstantin Yaroshenko announced that he was being attacked in connection with the conduct of a special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine,» the Ombudsman wrote in her Telegram channel. In the United States, Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2011 in a general security prison on charges of preparing a conspiracy to bring a large consignment of drugs into American territory.
Yaroshenko will return home in the near future, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow in the summer of 2020 sentenced a former student from Texas, Reed, to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of «use of violence» against the police. The American was also ordered to pay 100,000 rubles each to both law enforcement officers as compensation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.
