Ordered the shooting of civilians in Bucha: police reported suspicion to the commander of Russian paratroopers. Photo and video

20 January 2025, 16:25 | crime 
фото с Обозреватель

The national police reported suspicion to the commander of Russian paratroopers involved in the execution of people at the intersection of Vokzalnaya and Yablunskaya in Bucha. 16 civilians became victims of the occupiers.

This was reported by the press service of the Metropolitan Police.. For this crime, the war criminal faces life imprisonment.

“All 12 military personnel who killed 16 civilians at the intersection of these streets between March 5 and March 9, 2022 have been identified.. Among the dead were a woman with a red manicure, a man on a bicycle and a volunteer in a minibus, photos of which spread throughout the world’s media after the de-occupation of Buchi.. Among the civilians killed by the Russians are women, men and children from 14 to 69 years old.. All of them were shot from machine guns and military vehicles while they were trying to get to work or to relatives, evacuate their family from a combat zone, or simply find food,” the police noted..

Law enforcement officials added that the war criminals were 12 paratroopers of the 234th Airborne Regiment from Pskov.

Their commander gave the order to occupy the sector at the intersection of Vokzalnaya and Yablonskaya streets and fire to kill everyone who came into their field of view. He personally controlled the execution of the order, gave instructions on the arrangement of firing positions and the duty of Russian military personnel at them.

The police collected numerous evidence confirming the fact that the civilian commander of the Pskov paratroopers gave the order to be executed.. Investigators informed him of suspicion of giving an order that violated the laws and customs of war, coupled with premeditated murder.

По материалам: npu.gov.ua