“The Main Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia is checking information that after the massive artillery shelling, Ukrainian servicemen captured and are being held captive by 37 Russian citizens in the village of Staromaryevka in the Donbass, and there have also been cases of confiscating their passports from Russian citizens, and other violent actions. ", - said in the UK.
The official representative of the department, Svetlana Petrenko, recalled that for several years, Ukrainian military personnel “systematically violate the norms of international law,” including the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War and Additional Protocol II to it.
If these reports are confirmed, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed, based on the results of the inspection, to initiate a criminal case under Article 356 of the Criminal Code (cruel treatment of the civilian population) and also to take measures to identify specific persons involved in this.
On October 27, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had captured the village of Staromaryevka on the demarcation line in Donbass.
After that, the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the reports of the detention of 37 Russian citizens by Ukrainian soldiers in the "gray zone".
They noted that the situation in the village was complicated by "filtration measures" by the Ukrainian military.
The Foreign Ministry said that citizens with passports of Russia and the DPR, "these documents were confiscated, and their owners were subjected to violent actions."