Russia Opens Criminal Probe Into Ukrainian Militants on Terrorism Charges
16:35 19.01.2025 (Updated: 16:54 19.01.2025)
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - At least seven civilians are believed to have been killed while hiding in a basement in Russkoye Porechnoye in January 2025, the investigative authority said.
A criminal investigation has been launched into Ukrainian militants on suspicion of terrorism over the murder of at least seven civilians in the recently liberated village of Russkoye Porechnoye in Kursk Region, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Sunday.
"The Russian Investigative Committee's Main Military Investigations Department opened a criminal case against members of the armed Ukrainian formations involved a terrorist act against civilians in the Kursk region (Item "b" Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code)," the statement read.
Russia's Sever (North) group of forces told Sputnik they had found the bodies of tied and tortured civilians, including the elderly, in the basements of houses in the village in the Sudzha District of the Kursk Region. Ukrainian forces tortured the villagers who had been unable to evacuate, forcing them into basements before throwing in grenades.
Earlier, Yevgeny Aksenov, a Ukrainian soldier who surrendered to the Russian military in the city of Kurakhovo, Donetsk People's Republic, told Sputnik how his comrades deliberately fired at their captured fellow soldiers.
Ukrainian servicemen were hitting their comrades captured by the Russians with drones, according to a prisoner of war who was part of the group.
"The first four people who came out were wounded. I know that one man, our commander, the head of our group of four, was killed," Aksenov told Sputnik.
📹 Captured Ukrainian soldier tells Sputnik how the Ukrainian military finishes off its captured soldiers pic.twitter.com/njVAFjDxYR
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Another captured soldier, Maxim Koreiko, told Sputnik that Ukrainian commanders ordered their soldiers to blow up residential buildings in Kurakhovo, DPR, without making sure there were no civilians inside.
The Ukrainian command ordered blowing up residential buildings in Kurakhovo without worrying about civilians who might be inside.
"They sent us a TM mine and six kilos of TNT by drone. They told us to go and blow up something at the entrance to the designated building," a prisoner of war told Sputnik.
🪖 Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders ordered their troops to blow up apartment buildings in Kurakhovo in the DPR without making sure there were no civilians inside these buildings, one of the Ukrainian prisoners of war, Maksim Koreiko, told Sputnik. pic.twitter.com/eL9WtPDSdU
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