Rafael Lusvarghi, a 34-year-old Brazilian citizen living in Ukraine, was sentenced on May 2 to 13 years in prison for fighting against Ukraine for Russian-led separatist forces in the Donbas.

Lusvarghi came to the Donbas by way of Russia in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and started a war in eastern Ukraine that has taken over 13,000 lives in the last five years. He fought against Ukrainian forces in several of the war’s major battles. He frequently appeared in Russian and separatist propaganda, at one point promising to “march to Kyiv and end the war.”