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Tortured a civilian and ordered him to be shot in Mariupol: commander of the “Vostok” battalion has been notified of suspicion
In May 2022, during the occupation of Mariupol, Russian military personnel detained a local resident at a checkpoint who was riding a bicycle.
The man was taken to the military headquarters and they began to demand a confession of involvement in “Ukrainian nationalism.”
According to the investigation, the 53-year-old founder of the “Vostok” battalion put a pistol to the civilian’s temple and threatened to kill him, demanding that he identify himself as a member of Azov.
When the man refused in Ukrainian, the militant leader beat him and ordered him to be executed.
Russian military personnel had already lined the victim up against a wall, but the order was halted by a representative of the regiment’s command. Later the man was handed over to the so-called “MGB of the Donetsk People’s Republic.” He is now in Ukraine.
After the capture of Mariupol, the suspect received from the President of the Russian Federation the position of deputy head of the Rosgvardia administration in occupied Donetsk and the rank of police major general.
Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, he has been notified in absentia of suspicion for cruel treatment of the civilian population (part 1 of art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
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