IC of the Russian Federation opened criminal cases against Poltorak, Muzhenko, Lyashko and other Maidan Ukrainian officials and politicians
The General Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened criminal cases against a number of high-ranking Ukrainian officials. The list of persons subject to criminal prosecution by the Russian Federation includes the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak, the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko, the Commander of the Land Forces of Ukraine Anatoly Pushnyakov, the Commander of the National Guard Nikolai Balan, and the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Lyashko.
Officials of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are accused of using prohibited means and methods of warfare, the genocide is Article XXNX, 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Of messages of the official representative of the UK Vladimir Markin:
It should be noted that a few days earlier, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, stated that the RF IC has information about Arseny Yatsenyuk’s participation in torture and executions of Russian servicemen during the First Chechen Campaign.
Officials of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are accused of using prohibited means and methods of warfare, the genocide is Article XXNX, 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Of messages of the official representative of the UK Vladimir Markin:
In the period from May 31 to September 1 2015, unidentified persons from among the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine, carrying out knowingly criminal orders of Poltorak, Muzhenko, Pushnyakov and Balan in order to destroy the national group of the Russian-speaking population living in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, carried out aimed artillery shelling from heavy weapons (caliber not less than 122 mm) civilian infrastructure objects that are not military targets in the population chennye points of the republic.
The investigation believes that the Ukrainian military were violated: Protocol on the termination weapons in the south-east of Ukraine (Minsk, 05.09.2014) and its Memorandum (Minsk, 19.09.2014), the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva, 12.08.1949) and its Additional Protocol II (Geneva, 08.06.1977), the Convention on Crime Prevention genocide and punishment for it (Paris, 09.12.1948), Convention on the Rights of the Child (New York, 20.11.1989).
As a result of these artillery shelling, 45 people died, more than 160 people were injured, at least 163 objects were destroyed or partially destroyed, including houses, a court building, a mine substation, etc.
In addition, the Main Investigation Department of the IC of Russia initiated a criminal case against the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko and other persons from among the fighters of the “Azov” battalion on the grounds of crimes provided for by paragraphs "A", "in" h. 2 Art. 126, paragraphs "D", "e" h. 2 Art. 117, h. 1 Art. 356 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping, torture, use of prohibited means and methods of warfare).
According to investigators, 17 of September 2014 of the year, four fighters of the Azov battalion on the orders of Oleg Lyashko, who was the creator of the Azov battalion, illegally entered the apartment of Mariupol’s resident Dmitry Tchaikovsky. Having searched the apartment, the suspects tied up Tchaikovsky’s hands and, using violence, took him to the Azov battalion and then placed him in a metal container. During the day Lyashko together with the soldiers of the named battalion brutally beat the victim, and also threatened with murder, demanding to provide information about the possible presence of his stolen weapon. Subsequently, the suspects took Tchaikovsky in the trunk of a car to a wasteland, continuing torture, but then released, without receiving any information.
Initiating these criminal cases, the Investigation Committee was guided by part 3 of Article 12 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which gives us the right to attract foreign citizens who have committed a crime outside the Russian Federation to criminal liability in cases where the crime is directed against a citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as in cases provided for international treaty of the Russian Federation, if foreign nationals have not been convicted in a foreign state and are prosecuted in the Russian Federation Iisko Federation.
Investigative actions are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crimes committed.
The investigation believes that the Ukrainian military were violated: Protocol on the termination weapons in the south-east of Ukraine (Minsk, 05.09.2014) and its Memorandum (Minsk, 19.09.2014), the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva, 12.08.1949) and its Additional Protocol II (Geneva, 08.06.1977), the Convention on Crime Prevention genocide and punishment for it (Paris, 09.12.1948), Convention on the Rights of the Child (New York, 20.11.1989).
As a result of these artillery shelling, 45 people died, more than 160 people were injured, at least 163 objects were destroyed or partially destroyed, including houses, a court building, a mine substation, etc.
In addition, the Main Investigation Department of the IC of Russia initiated a criminal case against the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko and other persons from among the fighters of the “Azov” battalion on the grounds of crimes provided for by paragraphs "A", "in" h. 2 Art. 126, paragraphs "D", "e" h. 2 Art. 117, h. 1 Art. 356 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping, torture, use of prohibited means and methods of warfare).
According to investigators, 17 of September 2014 of the year, four fighters of the Azov battalion on the orders of Oleg Lyashko, who was the creator of the Azov battalion, illegally entered the apartment of Mariupol’s resident Dmitry Tchaikovsky. Having searched the apartment, the suspects tied up Tchaikovsky’s hands and, using violence, took him to the Azov battalion and then placed him in a metal container. During the day Lyashko together with the soldiers of the named battalion brutally beat the victim, and also threatened with murder, demanding to provide information about the possible presence of his stolen weapon. Subsequently, the suspects took Tchaikovsky in the trunk of a car to a wasteland, continuing torture, but then released, without receiving any information.
Initiating these criminal cases, the Investigation Committee was guided by part 3 of Article 12 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which gives us the right to attract foreign citizens who have committed a crime outside the Russian Federation to criminal liability in cases where the crime is directed against a citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as in cases provided for international treaty of the Russian Federation, if foreign nationals have not been convicted in a foreign state and are prosecuted in the Russian Federation Iisko Federation.
Investigative actions are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crimes committed.
It should be noted that a few days earlier, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, stated that the RF IC has information about Arseny Yatsenyuk’s participation in torture and executions of Russian servicemen during the First Chechen Campaign.
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