[Regnum] The Supreme Court issued a guilty verdict to the DPR against the military personnel of the nationalist association "Azov" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). All three were given lengthy prison terms. This was reported on August 21 by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
The investigation established that the instructor of the training company of the training battalion of the school of personnel Andrei Klementovich , gunner-assistant machine gunner Ivan Melnikovich and assistant grenade launcher "Azov"* Artur Sivitsky participated in the hostilities on the territory of Mariupol, preventing civilians from leaving the city along humanitarian corridors provided by the Russians the military.
In March 2022, near one of the houses on Karpov Avenue, they found a car with two men who were not participating in the armed conflict inside. At the same time, the militants mistook them for persons supporting the SVO and fired more than 50 aimed shots from firearms towards the victims. Both victims managed to escape.
In April, Klementovich opened fire on a civilian in Mariupol. The man received injuries incompatible with life.
As IA Regnum reported, on August 14, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Nikolai Kushch, a militant of Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) , to life imprisonment for killing a wounded soldier. His nationalist committed in Mariupol in April 2022.
Also, a military APU who shot four civilians in Mariupol was sentenced to life imprisonment in the DPR. The court established that Vasily Shitri , a 20-year-old mortar crew member of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, received an order to eliminate civilians on Nikopol Avenue in Mariupol in April 2022, after which he shot four civilians walking down the street from a machine gun. As a result, two men and two women died on the spot.
A Ukrainian soldier Vitaliy Minenko , who shot a young man in Mariupol for calling Russia, received 21 years in a strict regime colony.