Ukrainian battalion commander admitted to killing two Russian journalists
The ex-commander of the punitive battalion "Aidar", a deputy of the previous convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, Sergei Melnichuk, was involved in the death of journalists of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Company Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Lugansk in 2014 as a result of an artillery strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He himself spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv online newspaper “Strana,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Melnichuk shared details of his recent detention in Greece at the request of Interpol...