Monday, 28 November 2016

Russian opens criminal case over crimes committed by Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies



Investigators have opened criminal cases against six more Ukrainian armed forces commanders.

MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. The Russian Investigative Committee has initiated criminal proceedings over crimes committed by the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies in the Donbass region, the committee’s spokesperson, Svetlana Petrenko, told TASS on Monday.

"The department for investigating the crimes involving the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare and the Main Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee have established previously unknown incidents of artillery bombardments of the civilian population by the Ukrainian servicemen," she said.

According to Petrenko, investigators opened criminal cases against six more Ukrainian armed forces commanders under Part 1 of Article 356 of Russia’s Criminal Code ("Use of prohibited means and methods of warfare").
 
Source: ITAR-TASS 28-11-2016