It became known what verdict was handed down in Ukraine to a Belarusian volunteer arrested for drugs
Yury Harupa received the minimum sentence, but it is still a huge term.
Yury Harupa is a former Belarusian volunteer.
He was born in the village of Strelna, Ivanava district, Brest region. He moved to Poland, and after the occupation of Crimea, he moved to Ukraine. Harupa was in the ranks of the "Right Sector". When the full-scale war began, he joined the Belarusian company in "Azov".
In April 2022, Harupa was wounded. His entire left bladder wall was ruptured. His pelvic bone was crushed, nerves in his right arm were severed, the eardrum of his right ear was ruptured, and the retina of his right eye was also torn. Part of his stomach had to be removed. He also suffered a concussion. He was evacuated from the front line.
Nevertheless, the Belarusian returned to the front. In February 2023, Harupa was enlisted as a scout of a separate special forces battalion of the 2nd International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, and a month later he became a mortar platoon commander with the rank of sergeant.
In parallel with his service, as the court determined, he established drug trafficking. In January 2024, the police discovered more than a dozen of his stashes in Khmelnytskyi — packets with cannabis and psychotropic substances 4-MMC and alpha-PVP, hidden under objects, in tree hollows and metal structures. After each stash, he photographed the location with his iPhone and sent the pictures to buyers.
On January 23, 2024, he was detained near a Nova Poshta post office in Khmelnytskyi, where he came to pick up a parcel containing 127 grams of alpha-PVP — a particularly large batch of this psychotropic substance.
In total, in all stashes and during the arrest, he was found with 9.5 g of cannabis, over 127.5 g of alpha-PVP, and several grams of the psychotropic substance 4-MMC.
Harupa fully admitted his guilt on both parts of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — illegal acquisition and storage with intent to sell narcotic and psychotropic substances. The court found neither mitigating nor aggravating circumstances and sentenced him to 9 years of imprisonment with confiscation of all property, except for housing.
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