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The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues investigating a criminal case against Sergey Litvinov charged with crimes under articles 105, 356 of the RF Penal Code (murder, use of prohibited ways and methods of warfare).

It has been reported earlier that since 12 April 2014 and up to the present time unidentified persons from top political and military leadership of Ukraine, Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Guard of Ukraine and Right Sector have given orders to kill solely Russian-speaking citizens living in the Luhansk and Donetsk republics violating the Convention of 1948 on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and other international legal acts condemning genocide.

Hard evidence of the crimes committed by the militants of the National Guard, Right Sector and Ukrainian Armed Forces is conclusions of experts, a lot of testaments made by witnesses, and the evidence given by a private of Dnepr battalion Sergey Litvinov. He came to Russia on his own accord as a civilian to be taken to a hospital in the Rostov Region with a toothache, because in Ukraine he had nowhere to go for treatment as most of hospitals in Donbass are destroyed. According to Litvinov, he “personally killed civilian people, who did not take part in an armed conflict, including women and children, living in the villages of Melovoye, Shiroky, Makarovo and Kamyshnoye based on as petty a reason as anonymous reports”. For those murders the private received fees given to him by his superiors from the funds of Vladimir Kolomoysky.

By now Litvinov has been delivered in an expert facility in Moscow to undertake a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation. As in case of Savchenko, under Russian laws, such tests are a standard procedure for the individuals, who was directly involved in military actions and persons accused of serious and very serious crimes. The main aim of the evaluation is to determine whether the accused is sane and has legal capacity.

Litvinov and his lawyer were notified in due order about the evaluation.

Investigators are asking all who knows anything about other crimes committed by Litvinov during the armed conflict in Donbass to get in contact with an investigating group by email: sk-inf@mail.ru.