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Chairman of the IC of Russia Chairs Operational Meeting in St. Petersburg With Officers of the Military Investigation Department for the Western District

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, chaired an operational meeting at the Military Investigative Department of the IC of Russia for the Western Military District. The meeting was attended by Evgeniy Vladimirovich Yevtushevsky, head of the Military Investigation Department of the IC of Russia for the Western Military District, and officers of the Department.

During the meeting, officers reported to the Chairman on the investigation by military investigative authorities of crimes committed by the Ukrainian military and representatives of nationalist units against servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as civilians in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and Ukraine. Military investigators operating directly in the DPR and LPR manage to conduct detailed inspections of the crime scenes, report and collect objects, things and other evidence, as well as interrogate people who are eyewitnesses of these events.

An analysis of the information contained in the materials of criminal cases and the testimony of people, including victims, testifies to the numerous facts of the manifestation of unjustified cruelty by Ukrainian nationalists towards the civilian population of not only Donbass, but also Ukraine, as well as towards Russian military personnel who were injured and taken prisoners. Such actions violate a wide range of international human rights acts such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and its Additional Protocols, the Convention (IV) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, the Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and others.

The Chairman of the IC of Russia noted that the evidence collected by the investigation confirming the unjustified cruelty of the Ukrainian military, their intent to use heavy, including prohibited, weapons against non-military targets and civilians, testify to the danger of Ukrainian nationalism and the need for its legal assessment. The head of the IC instructed investigators to continue a thorough recording of the circumstances of the crimes committed by the Ukrainian regime, lodging of charges against persons involved, and further systematizing of the entire array of available data in order to forward them to judicial authorities.