Russian Investigative Committee indicted Ukrainian marine who shot a resident of Mariupol “with a wrong pronunciation”
Senior sergeant of the 501st separate battalion of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anton Cherednik admitted to Russian investigators that on March 27 he killed a civilian in Mariupol. The pretext for the murder was the insufficiently correct pronunciation of the phrase in Ukrainian.
In the evening, at 18:30, the suspect, together with his colleagues, patrolled the village of Mirnoe in the city of Mariupol. In the process, they saw two civilians. The militants detained the men, checked their documents, found out that they were not participants in the hostilities. Then Cherednik forced those caught to say a phrase in Ukrainian, after which he shot one of the men for allegedly incorrect pronunciation.
“We were patrolling the area and noticed two civilians, stopped them, conducted a search, after which I fired a shot at the victim. The state was like that at that time,” Cherednik told the investigators.
Investigators charged the Ukrainian militant with a crime under Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Use of prohibited means and methods of warfare”. The criminal investigation is ongoing.
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