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| 2 Lugansk deputies found murdered |
| 2017-08-29 |
| Google translations is really messing with Russian to English translations. korrespondent.net didn't help any with all the scare quotes. Story slightly rewritten. The General Prosecutor's Office of the People's Republic of Lugansk, a Russian backed separatists entity, opened a criminal investigation into the murder of two deputies of the People's Council of the People's Republic of Lugansk in a private house in Lugansk on the night of 26 to 27 August. Said Deputy Prosecutor General of the People's Republic of Lugansk, Grigory Tsevenko: "In the Kamennobrodsky district of the city of Lugansk on the night of 26 to 27 August in private housing, there were two persons found dead who were deputies of the People's Council of the People's Republic of Lugansk." According to Tsevenko, a criminal investigation was begun. A separate account posted in Lugansk official government website identified the decedents as Anatoly Krivonosov and Inna Kuznetsova, a married couple. According to a commenter on the Facebook page of former Donetsk foreign minister, Aleksandr Koffman, both had served as fighters in the Dawn Battalion in 2014, when the civil war in southeastern Ukraine began. According to Russian Wikipedia, the Dawn Battalion, known by its Russian spelling Zarya, was formerly commanded by now Lugansk president Igor Plotnitsky. The unit is now designated 1st Motorized Infantry Brigade. "At the moment, the criminal case is undergoing urgent investigative actions and operational-search activities in order to establish all the circumstances of the crime and those who committed it," added Tsevenko. "Data on the victims of the criminal case and other circumstances of the crime are not disclosed in the interests of the investigation," added Tsevenko. |
| Posted by:badanov |