A Ukrainian court has sentenced a Russian tanker to 10 years in prison for shooting at a residential building, the Ukrainian security services (SBU) announced on Monday. Sergeant Mikhail Kulikov, taken prisoner at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was found guilty of “violation of the laws and customs of war” by a court in Cherniguiv, in northern Ukraine.
According to the SBU, “it was established that the Russian tanker had crossed the Ukraine border from Belarus on February 24” and then, advancing towards this regional capital hit hard by the fighting, “bombed towns”.
Captured early in the war
“On February 26, following the order of his commander, he fired in particular at an 11-story residential building housing civilians. Several apartments were destroyed,” continues the SBU, according to which his tank was intercepted shortly after and Sgt. Kulikov captured. .
In May, the Ukrainian justice had already sentenced a 21-year-old Russian non-commissioned officer, Vadim Chichimarine, to life in prison for the murder of a civilian, a sentence reduced on appeal to 15 years in prison. He was the first Russian soldier to stand trial for a war crime since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Two soldiers accused of shelling two villages in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine with multiple missile launchers on the first day of the war have been sentenced to 11 years in prison and several other cases are pending trial.
Source: BFM TV
