The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 24Russian investigators opened a criminal case after the Ukrainian military shelled civilians near the Port City shopping center in Mariupol in the DPR, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the RF IC. near the Port City shopping center in Mariupol, DPR, a criminal case has been initiated,» the department said. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of the civilian population; the use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation). , who gathered near the Port City shopping center on Shevchenko Boulevard in Mariupol in the DPR for evacuation from the city. Thanks to the professionalism and well-coordinated actions of the Russian military, none of the civilians were hurt.A projectile from Ukraine arrived in the Belgorod region «The Investigative Committee will continue to work on fixing and collecting all evidence of the crimes of the Kyiv regime. The persons involved in the commission of these crimes will be identified and will be held criminally liable,» the department stressed. Russia began military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
