A court in southern Russia has sentenced two Russian soldiers to life imprisonment around a year after the murder of nine Ukrainian civilians, including two children. Investigators said the two defendants entered a house in the city of Volnovakha, which is in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine and is occupied by Russian troops. They then shot and killed a family of three generations with their silenced weapons. The defendants deny the crime and have announced their intention to appeal against the judgement, the Russian state news agency Tass reported on Friday. Initially, the motive was sai…