A Russian military officer has been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for shooting a woman because she spoke Ukrainian. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, UNN reports .
With the support of the public prosecution by the prosecutors of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court found the deputy commander of the 3rd Tank Battalion for weapons of the 6th Separate Tank Brigade (military unit 54096, 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation) guilty of violating the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder (part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He was sentenced to 15 years in prison,
Details
Prosecutors proved that on June 2, 2022, in the then-occupied Izium, a 35-year-old woman approached the headquarters of the Russian military: this was the place with Wi-Fi and communication. She wanted to call her brother, who lives in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
A 40-year-old Russian soldier came out of the headquarters and heard a woman speaking Ukrainian, which outraged and enraged him. He went to her with a gun and shot her in the chest. The victim died on the spot. The Russian soldier is wanted.
The sentence was handed down by the panel of the Dzerzhynskyi District Court of Kharkiv.
The deadline for appealing the decision is running.
The prosecutor's office noted that since the convict is still hiding from Ukrainian justice, the term of his sentence will begin to run from the moment of his actual detention. As long as he evades serving the sentence imposed on him by a court verdict, the statute of limitations is suspended.
Recall
The panel of judges of the Ichnianskyi District Court in Chernihiv region decided to sentence to life imprisonment for two Russian soldiers who shot four men on the outskirts of the village of Olshana, Pryluky district, on March 1, 2022.