Destroyed houses on a street in Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 18The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established the whereabouts of a militant from the Azov national battalion (against whom criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation) Mikhail Shvets, suspected of killing unarmed civilians in Mariupol, a criminal case was initiated against him, according to the department’s Telegram channel. According to the investigation, in In March 2022, Shvets fired several shots at unarmed civilians in Mariupol who were walking down the street. One witness reported that Shvets threatened to kill a man who reacted in annoyance to the white armband on the sleeves of each of those at the observation post. Later, he carried out his plan. «A criminal case has been opened against Sergeant Mikhail Shvets (call sign Thanos), who is serving in the nationalist Azov battalion. He is suspected of committing a crime under part 1 of article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,» it says. 
The Investigative Committee detained two commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who ordered shelling houses in the LNRRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
