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On May 9, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia reported that two militants of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov battalion will face the trial for the murder of civilians.
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Donetsk People’s Republic has approved an indictment in a criminal case against Ivan Bochkarev, a 24-year-old driver-shooter of the reconnaissance platoon of the separate special purpose detachment “Azov” and Dmitry Kanuper, a 23-year-old machine gunner of the first platoon of the reconnaissance company of the separate special purpose detachment “Azov”.
According to investigators, in March 2022, Bochkarev and Kanuper received an order from the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to eliminate civilians. They were on the roof of an apartment building in Mariupol, from where they opened fire from a machine gun at a group of civilians, two of whom were traveling by car.
Three men died on the spot from their wounds, one managed to hide from the shelling.
The criminal case was sent to the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic for consideration on the merits.
Earlier, on April 25, a marine of the AFU Andriy Petrenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison with serving in a high-security colony for the murder of a civilian in Mariupol in 2022.
At the end of March, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia reported that another Azov fighter was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the DPR for the murder of a woman in Mariupol in the spring of 2022.
