The Safety Service of Ukraine has recognized one other Russian soldier answerable for committing conflict crimes towards Ukrainians.
Supply: Safety Service of Ukraine; Workplace of the Prosecutor Basic
Particulars: The individual in query is Volodymyr Polupoltinnykh, commander of the Russian so-called sixth Separate Motorised Rifle Cossack Regiment of the LPR, which is a part of Russia's Southern Army District. [LPR, or Luhansk People's Republic, is a non-recognised and self-proclaimed quasi-state formation in Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, backed by Russia – ed.]
In keeping with the investigation, on 10 June 2022, the suspect ordered his subordinates to torture Ukrainian troopers who had been captured throughout preventing in Ukraine's east.
The investigation established that Polupoltinnykh personally took half within the torture. It has been documented that in one of many torture periods, he used a knife to carve the letter "Z" into the brow of a Ukrainian POW.
In keeping with the case supplies, the suspect is a resident of the quickly occupied a part of Luhansk Oblast who joined the Russian-controlled unlawful armed formations in 2014.
For the reason that begin of the full-scale invasion, he has taken half in fight in Ukraine's east as a part of the Russian occupying forces.
At current, Safety Service investigators have notified Polupoltinnykh in absentia that he’s suspected of offences beneath Article 28.1 and Article 438.2 of the Felony Code of Ukraine (violation of Articles 4, 13, 14, and 15 of the Geneva Conference relative to the Remedy of Prisoners of Warfare of 12 August 1949, which prohibits any illegal act or omission by the detaining energy that endangers the well being of prisoners of conflict beneath its safety, dedicated by a bunch of individuals).
The difficulty of declaring the suspect wished is at present into consideration. The pre-trial investigation continues, the workplace of the prosecutor common added.
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