Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 13 Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin in the context of Mariupol drew attention to the fact that prisoners of war «should always be treated humanely,» said Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee. The Russian Defense Ministry previously confirmed that as a result of successful offensive actions of the Russian armed forces and militia units of the DPR in Mariupol, more than a thousand Ukrainian marines surrendered. .In parallel, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation continues to investigate criminal cases of brutal treatment and murder of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine. «The Investigative Committee of Russia will carry out the necessary investigative actions with Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered in Mariupol. Their testimony may be important for criminal cases that the department is investigating on the events in Donbas and Ukraine,» Petrenko added.
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