287 people became defendants in criminal cases on crimes in Donbass

A residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling by Ukrainian troops. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 3More than 280 people, including Ukrainian officials and commanders of certain units of the armed forces, became defendants in criminal cases on crimes in Donbass, almost half of them have already been charged, said the chairman of the RF IC Alexander Bastrykin.» Over 8 years, the Investigative Committee has already opened about 800 criminal cases related to the events in the Donbass and Ukraine. Their defendants are representatives of the military and political leadership, law enforcement agencies, radical nationalist organizations of Ukraine, in total at the moment — 287 persons, almost half of them have been charged,» he said in an interview with RT. According to him, among the defendants are former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region Igor Kolomoisky, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, former Defense Ministers Valery Heletey and Stepan Poltorak , First Deputy and Deputy Ministers of Defense Ivan Rusnak, Igor Pavlovsk ii, Oleg Shevchuk, Alexander Dublyan, as well as the commanders of individual units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and members of the national battalions. «The bulk of the crimes of the Ukrainian security forces are the shelling of civilians from artillery pieces, tactical missile systems, mortars, small arms. Such actions are qualified as ill-treatment of the civilian population, the use of prohibited means and methods in an armed conflict, and even as genocide,» Bastrykin added. “Nonhumans are worse than terrorists.” How did the Ukrainian security forces distinguish themselves