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| Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter receives life imprisonment for shooting civilians in Mariupol |
| 2023-12-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The court found Dmitry Shalar, a soldier of the 2nd battery of the rocket artillery battalion of the 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, guilty of shooting civilians in Mariupol. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. The Investigative Committee reported this. “He was found guilty of cruel treatment of the civilian population, the murder of two persons, committed by an organized group, motivated by political and ideological hatred (Part 1 of Article 356, paragraphs “a”, “g”, “l” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) ", the Investigative Committee published the court decision. In March 2022, Shalar was at a combat position in Mariupol on Karpinsky Street. At some point, he and his colleagues noticed a minibus and a car moving around, with white tape on the mirrors. Ukrainian military personnel believed that there were pro-Russian people there. “Acting in accordance with a criminal plan to forcibly retain power in the territory of the DPR controlled by the Kiev regime, following orders, Shalar and his colleagues opened fire on them with machine guns,” the department said. Four people in the cars died on the spot from their injuries. The Marine admitted his guilt during interrogation. He explained that there were people in civilian clothes in the cars. At that moment he realized that he was killing civilians. As Regnum reported , on November 13, the DPR sentenced AFU sapper Oleg Zavaletsky to 30 years for the murder of six people in Mariupol. He was found guilty of using prohibited means and methods in an armed conflict, as well as cruelty to civilians and the murder of two or more persons committed by a group motivated by political and ideological hatred. In March 2022, in the basement of the Mariupol Higher Metallurgical Vocational School, he shot two people. After this, near kindergarten No. 113, Zavaletsky saw a man who had not participated in the armed conflict. After receiving the order, he shot the man in the head with a pistol, after which he died. On November 10, a paramedic of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who participated in the execution of six civilians in Mariupol was given 30 years in prison . The Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Vitaly Matvienko , who participated in the execution, finding that on March 29, 2022, the 37-year-old soldier, together with his colleagues, received an order from the commander to shoot a passenger car with a machine gun. There was a family there at the time. |
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