“The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art.

356 of the Criminal Code of Russia (Use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation), ”the message says.

According to the investigation, on February 22 at about 11:35 p.m., servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “fired an aimed shot with an anti-tank guided missile at a car in which there were two civilians.”

Earlier, Bastrykin instructed to investigate all cases of military attacks on the inhabitants of Donbass.

On February 21, the Russian Investigative Committee also opened a criminal case after the death and injury of civilians in Donbass as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian military.