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| Ukrainian soldiers who killed five residents of Mariupol get life sentences |
| 2024-03-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Two Ukrainian servicemen were sentenced in the Donetsk People's Republic to life imprisonment in the case of the murder of five residents of Mariupol. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia announced this on March 6. “The Supreme Court of the DPR issued a verdict in a criminal case against servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 24-year-old Alexander Pecharsky and 48-year-old Sergei Georgiu. It was established that Pecharsky, Georgiou and other military personnel, following criminal orders from the command, opened fire on civilians, as a result of which five of them died, two managed to escape,” the department said in a statement. The Prosecutor General's Office noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters committed crimes from March to April 2022. It is emphasized that they opened fire on civilians who were not related to the hostilities. Ukrainian military personnel will serve their sentences in a special regime correctional colony. As Regnum reported, on November 10, 30 years in prison was given to a paramedic of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who participated in the execution of six civilians in Mariupol. The Supreme Court of the DPR found that Vitaly Matvienko, on March 29, 2022, together with his colleagues, received an order to shoot a car in which at that moment there was a family of several civilians. On November 13, the DPR sentenced AFU sapper Oleg Zavaletsky to 30 years for the murder of six people in Mariupol. He was found guilty of using prohibited means and methods in an armed conflict, cruelty to civilians and the murder of two or more persons out of political and ideological hatred. In the basement of a Mariupol school, Zavaletsky shot two people, and another man later near a kindergarten. Later, in December, the court sentenced Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter Dmitry Shalar, who was guilty of shooting civilians in Mariupol, to life imprisonment. The court found that he and his colleagues noticed a minibus and a car with white ribbons on the mirrors, decided that there were pro-Russian people there, and opened fire on the cars. Four people in the cars died from their injuries. |
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