Investigative Committee in absentia charged an employee of the SBU for torturing the Russian military

The car of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, June 2Russian investigators received from the FSB information about the involvement of Vitaly Posokhov, an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in encroachments on the life of Russian military men, he was charged in absentia, according to the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. the lives of at least eight Russian servicemen. The department recalled that earlier the commanders of the Azov regiment Sergey Velichko and Konstantin Nemichev were involved as defendants. They are wanted and arrested in absentia.A former prisoner at the Severodonetsk airport spoke about torture «From the FSB of the Russian Federation received information about other persons involved in the crime. Among them is SBU officer Vitaly Posokhov. According to the investigation, he videotaped shooting at the legs of the Russian military. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. His search is being initiated,» the report says. In addition, the involvement in the crime of the militant of the Azov regiment Ivan Nikiforov and the head of the SBU department in the Kharkiv region Sergei Pshenichny is being checked. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces 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. Along with the Russian military, units of the DPR and LPR are operating in the region.