Aleksandr Nikulin () is a
Donetsk People's Republic
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...
supreme court judge since 2019.
In 2022, during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, he presided the trial of captured Ukrainian and foreign soldiers who surrendered following the
Siege of Mariupol and Azovstal plant. The event was described as a show trial, ending in June 2022 with
death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...
to foreign prisoners Britons
Aiden Aslin,
Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan
Brahim Saadoune,
Nikulin describing them as "Nazi".
On November 4, 2022, Nikulin was shot by unknown attackers in
Vuhlehirsk
Vuhlehirsk (, ; ) is a city in Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Vuhlehirsk had a population of 8,226 in 2011; more recently, its population was estimated to be
Vuhlehirsk is a district-level city in the Donetsk region, su ...
and left in critical condition, in what appears to be an assassination attempt.
Denis Pushilin
Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (born 9 May 1981) is a Russian politician who has served as the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since 2018. He has held the position in an acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of the DPR in ...
, leader of the DPR, accused Ukraine of commanding the assassination.
References
People from the Donetsk People's Republic
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