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| The case against the Azov militant who killed a civilian, was sent to the DPR court |
| 2024-06-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A criminal case against Mikhail Shvets, a militant of the Azov group (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), who is accused of murdering a civilian in Mariupol, was sent to court. This was reported by the prosecutor's office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). “The Prosecutor’s Office of the Donetsk People’s Republic approved an indictment in a criminal case against the 22-year-old driver of the machine-gun squad of the separate special forces unit “Azov” of the National Guard of Ukraine, Mikhail Shvets. He is charged under paragraphs. “g”, “l” part 2 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by an organized group, motivated by political, ideological hatred), Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of civilians in occupied territory),” the department reported. On March 14, 2022, Shvets stabbed a civilian in the neck in one of the city’s stores after being shot, after which the man died, the investigation reports. It is noted that the criminal case was sent to the Supreme Court of the DPR for consideration on the merits. As Regnum reported, on June 3, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced to life imprisonment the commander of the Azov group unit, Pyotr Shuflin, who shot three civilians of Mariupol in March 2022. The court also established that Shuflin will serve his sentence in a special regime correctional colony. On June 3, the Supreme Court of the LPR found the commander of the 15th motorized infantry battalion of the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Bogdan Garnaga guilty of committing a number of criminal offenses, sentenced him in absentia to 20 years in prison and put him on the international wanted list. Investigators have established that on April 7, 2022, on the orders of Garnaga, servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces battery fired at least 15 indiscriminate shots of high-explosive fragmentation shells from a mortar towards residential buildings in the city of Popasnaya (LPR). On May 30, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced to life imprisonment a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Svinarchuk, who gave the order to kill civilians. In March 2022, Svinarchuk, being a company commander, ordered Sabir Romanovich, who was in a combat position in the building of the Azovobschemash plant in Mariupol, to kill three civilians. As a result of his injuries, one man died on the spot, two managed to escape. |
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