13/01/2024
The Buchansk District Prosecutor's Office secured a life sentence for a Russian soldier for the murder of two people
According to the public indictment of the Buchansk District Prosecutor's Office, headed by its head Andriy Turbar, the court found guilty of the senior lieutenant of the 5th Separate Tank Guards Tank of the Tatsyn Red Banner Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree of the brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, in violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder. He was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment.
Prosecutors proved in court that in March 2022, five soldiers of the Russian Federation in a car with the letter "V" and the inscription "tank special forces RUS" arrived at the enterprise near the village of Mriya, Buchansky district, Kyiv region.
"At that time, two unarmed civilians approached the occupiers - the owner and the guard of this enterprise. The invaders, having made sure that these people did not pose any threat to them, gave them the opportunity to leave. However, as soon as they moved a few meters away, the convict together with an unidentified serviceman sneakily opened fire from an automatic weapon into the backs of civilians," the message reads.
The men died from at least 12 gunshot wounds. After that, the occupiers entered the premises on the territory of the enterprise and stole valuables, loading the stolen goods into a car.
CNN journalists then identified the victims: one of them was the owner of the robbed car dealership, whose family does not want to be named. The second is Plyats Leonid Oleksiyovych, a 68-year-old man who worked there as a watchman.