Law enforcement officers have completed the investigation and sent the case materials to court against a Russian serviceman for committing war crimes during the occupation of Bucha. According to the investigation, he fired more than 60 bullets at a civilian car, then shot the wounded driver at close range and burned the car along with the body.
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said this on April 30.
The suspect is a driver-mechanic of the tank company of the 212th district training center of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.
He will be tried for the murder of a civilian on the Kyiv-Chop highway, near Bucha. In March 2022, this was one of the few evacuation routes. People were leaving from under shelling. The civilian car was moving between the villages of Myla and Berezivka in the direction of Zhytomyr.
“The Russian soldier saw that it was a civilian car. Despite this, he opened aimed fire. At least 63 bullets. When the car stopped, he approached the wounded driver and finished him off with several shots to the head. After that, he burned the car along with the body. No fight. No threat. Only the deliberate murder of a civilian,” Kravchenko's post says.
According to him, the evidence includes intercepted conversations in which the accused confesses to the crime, and the testimony of another Russian serviceman who was an eyewitness to the murder.
Earlier, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko reported that most criminal cases are being considered in absentia in courts, without interrogations and detention of suspects. But, according to him, “an evidentiary base is being formed that works both in national proceedings and is the basis for future cases of the International Tribunal.” The editorial team of Suspilny investigated how justice works against the occupiers and what will happen to sentences passed in absentia.