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For: Real America News Updated 12 May 2022, 12: 49 pm EDT
Russian soldier will be the first to be tried by the Ukrainian authorities for war crimes, after murdering a man from 68 years disarmed on 28 February in the village of Chupakhivka.
Iryna Venediktova, who is in charge of the Prosecutor’s Office General of Ukraine, has received more than 10 a thousand crimes since the war began . After the war crimes committed by the Russian troops, the prosecutor will start the trials against them.
Vadim Shysimarin from 21 years old is a commander of the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, who is being held in the Ukrainian prison accused of murdering a civilian of 64 year old.
“Ukraine’s prosecutor general announced that a 11- year-old Russian soldier in custody will be the first to stand trial for an alleged war crime during Russia’s invasion.” https://t.co/MqAV21iV5L
— Iryna Venediktova (@VenediktovaIV) May 10, 2022
This murder for which Shysimarin is being sentenced, occurred when he stole a vehicle to escape from the Ukrainian artillery, along with other soldiers. He saw a man who was on his bike talking on the phone and shot him with AK-74 killing him, the civilian had no weapons nor was he a Ukrainian combatant.
“ Prosecutors and investigators of the Ukrainian Secret Services (SBU) have collected sufficient evidence of their participation in the violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder . For these actions, he faces a 15 years in prison or life imprisonment,” said a spokesman from kyiv, The Guardian reported.
Iryna Venediktova, has the identity of another soldier whom he accused of killing four unarmed men and torturing civilians. The prosecutor described the update as; “A drop in the ocean of cases we have.”
Among the evidence, the investigators found: “ a camera of torture with bodies piled on the ground, but also among the complaints that have been received in the office there are many related to sexual abuse against minors “, sentenced Venediktova.
There are more soldiers, who bombed civilian buildings with rocket launchers and even a school in the Kharkov district and in the city of Dergachiv, who are also being investigated to identify them.
The despicable 10.
Ten russian butchers from the 68th brigade have been identified and named suspects responsible for committing #BuchaMassacre. This unit had been awarded for its atrocities, and returned to the battlefield. Justice for war criminals is unavoidable. pic.twitter.com/aTU11ZjJ3C— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 28, 2022
The Prosecutor’s Office also has the case of another soldier, Mikhail Romanov is accused of forcibly entering a house in the city of Brovarsky to murder the husband and constantly rape occasions the wife threatening her at all times, as well as the children who were present during the atrocious acts that the man committed.
“Now we don’t know where he is, maybe he is still fighting, maybe he is in rotation in the Russian federation, maybe he is dead . We don’t know, but we want to process it in absentia ”, Iryna explained. Vendiktova to the same newspaper.
Last April, Ukrainian authorities charged 10 soldiers Russians, of whom they published their photographs for the war crimes committed in the town of Bucha, where they took civilians as hostages, tortured innocent residents and killed dozens of people who showed signs of torture.
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