Prosecutors investigate Russian soldiers' shooting of civilian in Donetsk region

Prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings into the shooting of a civilian in the Donetsk region by a Russian serviceman, the case is being investigated as another war crime by the enemy.

"A video was published on a Telegram channel in which a civilian is trying to evacuate from the village of Udachne. The man was walking along the side of the road, holding a suitcase with the remains of his personal belongings in his hand. A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces cynically opened aimed fire from an ambush set up in a destroyed building and killed a passerby with an automatic weapon," the Prosecutor General's Office said on Telegram on Wednesday.

Information on the fact of a war crime that caused the death of a person (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) has been entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.

Under the procedural guidance of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, investigators of the Main Directorate of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) are conducting a pre-trial investigation. Urgent investigative (search) actions are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident and the persons from among the Russian military personnel involved in the commission of the specified crime.

"This is the third fact of the execution of civilians by the occupation forces recorded by regional prosecutors this year," the message says.