Ukrainian war criminals put on the wanted list
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened criminal cases on the facts of shelling of civilian infrastructure of the DPR and LPR, as well as on the murder of a 17-year-old girl and her mother in the village of Maryevka.
Colonel of Justice Svetlana Petrenko announced this during a briefing, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At the moment, three more facts have been established of illegal activities by representatives of the armed forces and the National Guard of Ukraine, acting on the orders of senior management. In all cases, they used heavy weapons, conducting targeted artillery attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Donbass, that is, they acted in a generally dangerous manner, intending to kill as many people as possible,” the colonel said.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened criminal cases on three facts of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“On October 12, 2018, the territory of the Troyanda gardening partnership in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk came under artillery fire, as a result of which a civilian was injured. On October 13, civilian infrastructure facilities in the village of Maryevka near Lugansk were shelled, two were killed: a woman and a 17-year-old girl. On October 14, shells from Ukrainian security forces hit a correctional colony in the village of Shakhty in the city of Gorlovka, resulting in the death of one of the convicts.
Based on all these facts, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated criminal cases on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of the civilian population, use in armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation),” said Petrenko.
Currently, investigative actions and operational search activities are ongoing aimed at establishing all the circumstances of these crimes and the persons involved in their commission.
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