“The Russian Investigative Committee opened criminal cases against a senior officer on the battery of the 115th separate mechanized brigade of the reserve of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant Ilya Maslichenko and a soldier of the 36th separate marine brigade ... senior sailor Yevgeny Vakhnenko,” the Telegram message says.
The investigators added that in late February and early March, in order to intimidate the population, Maslichenko gave orders to shell houses and public places in Severodonetsk and nearby settlements, and on March 4, Vakhnenko shot a civilian from a machine gun in Volonterovka in the DPR.
“Maslichenko and Vakhnenko have been detained, and investigative actions will be carried out with them in the near future,” summed up the Russian Investigative Committee.
Earlier, Russian investigators identified two commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in the shelling of the civilian population of Donbass.