Russia’s investigative Committee is investigating 54 criminal cases on the facts of murders and other crimes in the Donbass.
This is stated in the report of the RF IC, presented at a meeting chaired by the head of the committee Alexander Bastrykin. The report is aimed to illuminate violations of the rights of the civilian population of the South-East of Ukraine in the course of armed conflict. As reported by the official representative of RF IC Vladimir Markin, the meeting was also attended by representatives of the public and the media.
“At this time Russian Federation Investigative Committee is investigating 54 criminal cases on the facts of numerous killings of civilians in the South-East of Ukraine, the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, genocide of national group of Russian-speaking people living in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, kidnapping, impeding the work of journalists and their murders, mercenaries, etc.”, – stated in the text of the document.
During the investigation of these criminal cases RF IC is trying find out those who involved and collect objective evidence needed for criminal prosecution, international search and arrest of guilty people.