Ex-Ukrainian soldier who scaled wall of US ambassador's residence in Phoenix Park avoids jail

Ex-soldier sparked alert at US ambassador's Dublin home after climbing 8ft wall

A VETERAN Ukrainian soldier who sparked a security alert at the US ambassador’s official residence in Dublin has been spared a jail sentence and has left the country. Oleksandr Kucherenko, 33, claimed to be sightseeing on June 13 and “wandered” into the grounds by scaling a moat and an eight-foot walled perimeter of the Deerfields residence in Phoenix Park. He pleaded guilty the following day at Dublin District Court to trespassing in a manner l…

Ex-Ukrainian soldier who scaled wall of US ambassador's residence in Phoenix Park avoids jail

Oleksandr Kucherenko, 33, claimed to be sightseeing and that he ‘wandered’ into the grounds by scaling a moat and an eight-foot walled perimeter.