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Two probes launched into wounding of Donbass civilians by Ukrainian combatants

The Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened two more investigations into an offence under Part 1 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Russia (cruel treatment of civilians and use in a military conflict of means and methods of warfare, banned by an international treaty of the Russian Federation).

According to the investigators, on September 30, 2018, while executing admittedly offensive orders of higher officials from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine performed a targeted artillery attack with high-casualty heavy weapons on civilian infrastructure objects of no military target in settlement Staromikhaylovka, Maryinsky District of the self-appointed Donetsk People's Republic. The attack resulted in an underage local female citizen injured.

On October 6, 2018, Ukrainian military personnel performed a sniper attack on civilian objects in settlement Trudovskaya Shaft, Petrovsky District, Donetsk. A 55-year-old male citizen suffered gunshot wounds.

The investigators believe that the said persons acted against the Protocol to Cease Fire in South-West Ukraine and the related Memorandum, as well as provisions of Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and its Annex II.

The Investigative Committee takes comprehensive measures in order to define all the circumstances of the said offenses, as well as to identify officials issued and executed the offensive orders to perform fire attacks on civilian objects.

It will be recalled that the non-international armed conflict in South-West Ukraine between militia of the self-appointed Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic on one side and the National Guard of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the other side has been taking place since April 2014. The decisions to cease fire were made repeatedly on various levels but the Ukrainian military has been yet disregarding them.

Official spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation S. Petrenko

The Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened two more investigations into an offence under Part 1 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Russia (cruel treatment of civilians and use in a military conflict of means and methods of warfare, banned by an international treaty of the Russian Federation).

According to the investigators, on September 30, 2018, while executing admittedly offensive orders of higher officials from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine performed a targeted artillery attack with high-casualty heavy weapons on civilian infrastructure objects of no military target in settlement Staromikhaylovka, Maryinsky District of the self-appointed Donetsk People's Republic. The attack resulted in an underage local female citizen injured.

On October 6, 2018, Ukrainian military personnel performed a sniper attack on civilian objects in settlement Trudovskaya Shaft, Petrovsky District, Donetsk. A 55-year-old male citizen suffered gunshot wounds.

The investigators believe that the said persons acted against the Protocol to Cease Fire in South-West Ukraine and the related Memorandum, as well as provisions of Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and its Annex II.

The Investigative Committee takes comprehensive measures in order to define all the circumstances of the said offenses, as well as to identify officials issued and executed the offensive orders to perform fire attacks on civilian objects.

It will be recalled that the non-international armed conflict in South-West Ukraine between militia of the self-appointed Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic on one side and the National Guard of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the other side has been taking place since April 2014. The decisions to cease fire were made repeatedly on various levels but the Ukrainian military has been yet disregarding them.

Official spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation                                        S. Petrenko

09 October 2018 10:07

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