The Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has identified the russian invaders who shot four Ukrainian prisoners of war in the second half of May 2024 near the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia Region.
This is stated in the message of the Defense Intelligence.
The execution was captured on video: four Ukrainian soldiers with their hands raised without weapons surrendered as prisoners, the russians forced them to lie face down and shot them at close range.
According to reports, specialists of the Defense Intelligence identified those involved in the war crime - they turned out to be russian invaders who were part of the assault group of the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment (military unit 71718) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Army of the Southern District of the Armed Forces of the russian federation. The point of permanent deployment of the specified military unit is located in the city of Shali (Chechnya, russia).
It is noted that at the time of the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war under Robotyne, the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the russian army was commanded by lieutenant colonel Yury Mairbekovich Abayev, nicknamed "Buffalo", born in 1990.
Servicemen of the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the russian occupation army also involved in the war crime are:
- Captain Dmytro Olegovich Nagorny, born on November 21, 1995 – commander of the 2nd battalion;
- Senior Lieutenant Temirlan Umarovich Abutalimov, born on May 2, 1997 – commander of the 1st assault company;
- Lieutenant Zaur Sergeevich Bekov, born on July 16, 1997 – commander of the 3rd assault company;
- senior lieutenant Yusup Paizulaevich Imagazaliyev, born on July 18, 1999 - commander of the 6th assault company.
The intelligence officers emphasize that the specified russian war criminals may also be involved in the murder of several more Ukrainian prisoners of war later in May 2024. What, in particular, is evidenced by the received radio intercepts of the conversation of the occupiers from the 70th Regiment of the russian Armed Forces, during which one of the russian assault company commanders orders his subordinates to shoot Ukrainian soldiers.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin announced that the russian occupiers beheaded a Ukrainian soldier in order not to take him as a prisoner of war. The war crime took place in the Donetsk Region.
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