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Ukrainian soldier who shot captured Russian soldiers near Kursk to stand trial
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] Machine gunner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Oleksandr Gusak, who killed three captured Russian soldiers in the Kursk region, will appear in court. This was announced on January 24 bythe press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia on its Telegram channel. It is noted that the investigation has completed the investigation and sent the case to court against the Ukrainian soldier of the 82nd separate airborne assault brigade, accused of committing a terrorist act. It was established that Gusak illegally crossed the Russian border in the Kursk region and shot three unarmed Russian soldiers with a machine gun. "During the military operations, Gusak was detained by servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The criminal case with the indictment was sent to the 2nd Western District Military Court for consideration on the merits," the statement said. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 19, captured Ukrainian militant Gusak confessed to shooting three captured Russian soldiers. According to the prisoner, the commander promised to shoot him himself if he did not shoot the prisoners. On November 2, the Investigative Committee began an investigation into the death of Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces near Kursk. It is noted that a photograph of the dead Russian soldiers had appeared on social media earlier, one of whom had his hands tied behind his back. Related from regnum.ru Near Kharkov, Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders chained their soldiers and left them to die Russian military personnel have discovered the bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) soldiers at positions abandoned by the enemy in the Kharkiv region, who were chained and left to die by their own commanders. This was reported on January 24 by the Telegram channel Severny Veter. The post notes that the dead Ukrainian soldiers were found in one of the rooms of the enemy fortification, which was taken under control by units of the "North" group. The authors suggested that in this way, the Ukrainian Armed Forces officers are trying to intimidate the fighters and show them what awaits them if they refuse to follow orders. “The officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are driving soldiers to slaughter, but there are too many refusers - that’s why Ukrainian neo-Nazis are organizing public executions to force the rank and file to go on another ‘meat assault’,” concluded the Telegram channel “Northern Wind.” It is specified that traces of torture were found on the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 15, the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian publication Censor.net Yuriy Butusov stated that about a thousand soldiers from the 155th Anna Kievskaya Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, trained in France, deserted after arriving at the front line. He explained that the desertion was due to the fact that this brigade was recruited from forcibly mobilized soldiers who were poorly trained. On December 26, former Ukrainian military medic and current fighter of the Maksym Krivonos volunteer detachment Volodymyr Koshelek, call sign Historian, said that the Ukrainian military does not support the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky, refusing to carry out the tasks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command. According to him, Ukrainians are aware of what is happening in the country, but are afraid to talk about it, as they are intimidated and "driven into a corner." Posted by: badanov 2025-01-25 |
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