A court in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has sentenced a participant of the military aggression against Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to eight years in prison.

Misir Hasimli, a participant in the 44-day war of 2020, and his friend Subhan Guliyev were sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping, hooliganism, and possession of weapons, Azerbaijani media report.

The respective court trial lasted more than a year and a half.

On June 8, 2021, the aforesaid accomplices threw a party in a restaurant in Kyiv. There they got acquainted with a man; and during the conversation it was found out that his mother is Armenian. Subsequently, the accomplices kidnapped, beat, and robbed this man. The name of the victim, however, has not been released.