A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian male to 25 years in prison for the murder of an army recruitment officer and former submarine commander.The founded guilty guy, Sergei Denysenko, was arrested in July in 2015, two days after the killing of recruitment official Stanislav Rzhitsky, who was shot dead while running in a park in the southern city of Krasnodar.A court in Krasnodar found Denysenko guilty of murder and treason, saying he had joined an orderly group whose leadership designated him to eliminate Rzhitsky over his activities in service, according to Russias Investigative Committee.Denysenko was ordered to serve five years in jail and the rest of the sentence in a strict-regime penal nest.
He was also purchased to pay five million rubles ($51,000) in payment to the dead guys father.A video launched by the court revealed Denysenko with white cropped hair and beard shaking his head and shrugging as the sentence was read.Rzhitsky worked as the deputy to the Krasnodar city administration authorities in charge of mobilization operations for the army.
Formerly, he was commander of the Krasnodar submarine.Investigators said Denysenko discovered the Rzhitskys jogging routine and then laid in await him in a wooded location of the park in the morning.
Rzhitsky was shot at least 8 times.Denysenko, a qualified karate fitness instructor, is Ukrainian and gained Russian citizenship a few months before the murder.Ukrainian media connected Rzhitskys murder to his role as a submarine leader in the Black Sea Fleet, reporting that the Krasnodar submarine participated in rocket strikes on the city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, killing around 27 people.The Kommersant service daily reported that Rzhitsky had left his submarine post in 2021.