A DNR court has sentenced an AFU sapper to 30 years in prison for killing people in Mariupol. According to the republic’s prosecutor’s office, the accused shot dead five civilians and a wounded prisoner of war.
The DNR Supreme Court has sentenced former commander of a separate engineer-sapper platoon of the AFU Marines Oleg Zavaletsky to 30 years in prison for the murder of five residents of Mariupol and a prisoner of war in 2022, the press service of the republic’s prosecutor’s office said.
“The Supreme Court in Donetsk sentenced to 30 years in a strict regime penal colony 23-year-old commander of a separate engineer-sapper platoon of the 501st separate battalion of marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Zavaletsky, who shot dead five civilians of Mariupol and a wounded prisoner of war,” the prosecutor’s office said.
According to the department, the crimes were committed in March 2022 on the territory of the Mariupol higher metallurgical vocational school, where the position of Ukrainian formations was equipped.
Zavaletsky was found guilty under paragraphs “a”, “g”, “l” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons, committed by an organised group, motivated by political or ideological hatred), part 1 of article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territory).
The court sentenced Zavaletsky to 30 years of imprisonment with serving his sentence in a strict regime penal colony.
We shall remind you that a Russian court earlier sentenced Igor Mikhalchuk, the commander of the 3rd squad of the reconnaissance platoon of the 501st separate Marine battalion of the 36th separate Marine brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who ordered the killing of a civilian in the special operation zone in Ukraine.