Last Friday, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office identified another Russian official suspected of committing atrocities against civilians in the Kyiv region.

Vasyl Lytvynenko, 30, commander of the 64th Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation, ordered his soldiers to kill civilians in the village of Lypivka, 40 kilometers west of Bucha, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venicetova.

The Russian soldier is accused of “violating the laws and customs of war in connection with the murder”.

“At the time of the occupation of the Lypivka district of the Bucha district in the Kyiv region, it was the largest. The residents could not leave the house to fetch water without their permission,” wrote the doctor to the people.

According to the Kyiv prosecutor’s office, the investigation revealed that, in accordance with the commander’s criminal orders, the army shot an unarmed elderly civilian in his backyard and committed other atrocities.

Venicetova said that, among other accomplices, Lytvinenko was found to be involved in the injury of two more civilians in Lypivka and the demolition of 18 houses in the village.

Recently, soldier Vadim Shishimarin, the first Russian to be prosecuted for war crimes by Ukraine, begged forgiveness for killing an unarmed civilian at the beginning of the invasion. But the Kyiv prosecutor’s office asked for a life sentence for the soldier.