A serviceman of the Russian National Guard, who committed serious war crimes against the civilian population in occupied Kherson, has been sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison.
This was reported by the Kherson Oblast police.
Police determined that during March–October 2022 the convict, while in Kherson, illegally deprived civilians of liberty, holding them in the premises of a captured temporary detention facility. In particular, in August 2022 he, together with other Russian servicemen, detained a local resident and imprisoned him in one of the ITT cells. During repeated interrogations the victim was subjected to torture and sexual violence – electric shock torture and rape with foreign objects.
The Russian treated the detainees with particular cruelty. People were kept in unsanitary conditions, deprived of food and water, and subjected to physical violence and abuse.
Police investigators charged the Russian National Guard serviceman with a crime under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 1 of Article 438 “War Crimes” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – cruel treatment of the civilian population and other violations of the laws and customs of war provided for by international treaties, committed by prior conspiracy of a group of persons, and sent the indictment to court.
Earlier we wrote that in the Kherson region an FSB officer who tortured civilians.