Named ‘the despicable 10’, they belong to Russia’s now infamous 64th Brigade, honoured by president Vladimir Putin, who praised their ‘mass heroism and valour’.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence published their names and faces, adding: ’10 Russian butchers from the 64th brigade have been identified and named suspects responsible for committing Bucha Massacre.
‘This unit had been awarded for its atrocities, and returned to the battlefield. Justice for war criminals is inevitable.’
Today, Ukraine’s prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova named the 10 troops – four privates, four corporals and two sergeants – who ‘were involved in the torture of peaceful people’ in the city in the Kyiv region.
The prosecutor general’s office and news agency Slidstvo scoured the internet for their personal information.
A Facebook post said: ‘Prosecutors of the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office awarded the deserved “title” of suspects of civilian abuse and other violations of laws and war customs to the first 10 soldiers of this brigade.’
They were called as Vyacheslav Lavrentyev, Grigory Narishkinto, Vasily Prince, Semen Maltsev, Sergey Peskarov, Albert Radnaev, Michael Kashinu, Andriy Bizyaev, Dmitry Sergienka and Nikiti Akimov.
‘During the occupation of Bucha, they took unarmed civilians hostage, killed them with hunger and thirst, and kept them on their knees with their hands tied and their eyes taped,’ the prosecution basic composed.
‘[The hostages] were buffooned and beaten with fists and the rifle stocks.
‘They were beaten for details about the area of the [Ukrainian] militaries … and some were tortured for no factor at all.’
She likewise informed German TELEVISION Ukrainian detectives had actually determined ‘more than 8,000 cases’ of believed war criminal activities given that Russia’s intrusion.
This consists of allegations of ‘killing civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, torture’ and ‘sexual crimes’, Ms Venediktova included.
Her remarks come as the International Criminal Court (ICC) increases its examination into supposed war criminal activities dedicated in Ukraine given that the start of the war.
In current weeks, Bucha has actually ended up being associated with the word ‘atrocities’.
After Putin’s soldiers withdrew, bodies of civilians were discovered spread on the streets– some with their hands bound, some with gunshot injuries to the head.
So far, the remains of 412 individuals have actually been discovered, consisting of 117 bodies from a mass tomb near the Church of St Andrew the First-Called
There have actually been traumatic reports of ‘execution’ design murders and of serious whippings within underground abuse chambers.
Despite installing paperwork, the Kremlin has actually duplicated rejections its forces was accountable for the carnage in Bucha and has actually called images and videos ‘another hoax’.
Human Rights Watch scientists, who operated in Bucha from April 4 to 11, likewise discovered comprehensive proof of summary executions, other illegal killings, and implemented disappearances.
All of this would make up war criminal activities, and possible criminal activities versus mankind, according to the organisation.
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