The court satisfied the statement about the genocide of the peoples of the USSR by German troops in the Belgorod region

The application was sent to the court on behalf of prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.

"The court established that in the period from 1941 to 1943 in the territory of the Belgorod region, the German fascist invaders formed punitive battalions that massively destroyed Soviet citizens and prisoners of war, made illegal arrests, used cruel torture and torment," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

For example, in early February 1942, in the area of the reed factory in the village of Mikhaylovka, about two thousand people died at the hands of the German invaders: people in groups of 40-50 people were driven into sheds, where they were shot and burned.

In total, during the period of temporary occupation of the Belgorod region, more than 71.7 thousand people were exterminated.

In December last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee to continue work on the legal assessment of the actions of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.