A sniper of the Russian Armed Forces was informed about the suspicion — in February 2022 he shot a civilian during the occupation of the village of Peremoha, Brovary district, Kyiv oblast.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced this on June 3.
The occupier is a sniper of the 15th "peacekeeping" brigade of the 2nd Guards All-Military Army of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He is suspected of violating the laws and customs of war.
As for the victim, the unarmed victim returned home and posed no threat to the Russian occupiers.
- As of June 3, 1,314 bodies of killed civilians have already been found in Kyiv oblast.
- Russian troops entered the territory of Kyiv oblast on the first day of the full-scale invasion — February 24. They occupied Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, and surrounding villages. From the first days of March, the occupiers began to kill locals. On April 1, the Ukrainian army entered Bucha. Within a day, the bodies of the dead were removed from the streets. Shortly afterward, on April 5, corpses began to be exhumed from mass graves arranged by Russian soldiers.