War in Ukraine
Russian military officers convicted of nine murders
Two Russian soldiers shoot a large Ukrainian family in Donetsk. A Russian court has now convicted her of nine counts of murder. A rare occurrence – also because of the reasons for the verdict.
Around a year after the murder of nine Ukrainian civilians, including two children, a court in southern Russia has sentenced two Russian soldiers to life imprisonment. According to investigators, the two defendants broke into a house in the town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which was occupied by Russian troops. There they shot a large family consisting of three generations with their silenced weapons.
The defendants deny the crime and have announced an objection to the verdict, as reported by the Russian state news agency Tass.
Initially, the motive was to try to obtain vodka, which was banned during the war. The verdict now states that the perpetrators committed the murder out of “political, ideological, racist, national or religious hatred.” The trial itself took place behind closed doors.
Kiev has repeatedly accused Russian troops of serious crimes in the war zone. Moscow usually denies such crimes. The Russian parliament has even passed a law that criminalizes the alleged defamation of the Russian army. Public reports of such verdicts – and with justifications that confirm Ukrainian allegations – are considered comparatively rare.
dpa
Source: Stern
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