Civilians shot and tortured: two more Russian executioners suspected
Ukrainian law enforcement officers continue to document crimes committed by the Russian military on the territory of Ukraine.
The investigators found that during the temporary occupation of the Dvorichansk territorial community, a 30-year-old employee of the 2nd Operational Company of the OMON Directorate of the Russian Guard, together with other employees of the body and the military of the Russian Federation, were illegally imprisoned and tortured civilians.
Being on the territory of the village of Gryanikivka, Kupyansk district, the attackers detained Ukrainian citizens without drawing up any procedural documents with the use of physical force. Under the threat of deprivation of life, the victims and their relatives were brought to a specially equipped torture chamber in the cafe building in the village of Hrushivka.
Citizens were tortured, interrogated, forced to abandon the pro-Ukrainian position, provide data on other pro-Ukrainian citizens, servicemen, ATO participants, law enforcement officers, etc.
The victim of the occupiers was a 42-year-old civilian local resident, a former ATO participant. On March 23, 2022, the suspect and 30 other Russian servicemen arrived at the man's house.
In front of the victim's wife, they beat the head with a machine gun, their hands were taped and the household was searched. Then the man was put on a bag over his head and taken by minibus to the basement of the torture chamber.
For two days, a local resident was illegally kept without food and water with a bag on his head and with his hands tied in an unheated room.
The 30-year-old is suspected of personally beating the victim with a wooden stick, a rubber police tanner and a metal pipe. Interrogations were conducted every hour, at intervals that excluded the man's ability to sleep. To inflict the most painful sensations and enhance the effect of physical suffering before each interrogation, he was stripped to his underwear and tied up.
Thus, the attacker tried to find out information about the alleged cooperation of the prisoner with the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, his service in the Ukrainian special forces, about the places of deployment of Ukrainian servicemen.
Investigators of the investigative department of the GUNP in the Kharkiv region under the procedural leadership of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office in absentia informed the 30-year-old Russian police officer about the suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 1 of Article 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to 12 years in prison.
But the occupier, who shot in the back two peaceful residents of the Kiev region, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The war crime was committed in the early days of a full-scale invasion near a car dealership near Kiev as Russian troops tried to capture the Ukrainian capital.
The victims are the 61-year-old owner and the 68-year-old security guard of the car dealership. The men had no weapons and did not participate in hostilities with the occupiers.
Surveillance cameras recorded how the Russian spoke to them for several minutes, after which he allegedly released and shot the men in the back.
According to the investigation materials of the National Police, the victims suffered fifteen gunshot wounds, resulting in death. After that, the Russian military, along with other invaders, robbed a car dealership, loading the stolen into a car marked “tank special forces of the Russians”.
Investigators of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have established the identity of the killer. This is a 28-year-old native of the city. Omsk, who served in the 212th district training center of the tank troops of the Siberian military district in the military unit No. 21250 of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
In August 2022, under the procedural guidance of the Buchansky District Prosecutor's Office, the invader was reported in absentia about the suspicion of violation of the laws and customs of war by a group of persons committed according to a preliminary conspiracy (Part 2 of Art. 28 Part 2 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and in March 2023 the case was referred to the court.
In January 2024, the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv Region sentenced the murderer of Ukrainian civilians to life imprisonment.
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