A Russian soldier who allegedly shot a civilian in an extraordinary attack caught on camera by a Ukrainian drone is being accused of war crimes in absentia by the Ukrainian police. 9News
The dossier of evidence against him includes phone calls between the soldier and his wife and friend intercepted during a months-long investigation into the Russian attack near theThe audio files were shared exclusively with CNN in advance of a news conference in Kharkiv to announce the charges on Tuesday.Police identified the soldier as Klim Kerzhaev — a 25-year-old commander from Moscow, who served in the 2nd Motorised Rifle Division of the 1st Tank Army in the Western Military District.
"We are watching this as if it's on TV, like a soap opera. A horror movie where Russians kill civilians," the head of the investigation department for Kharkiv Police, Serhii Bolvinov, told CNN. Bolvinov said this is just one of hundreds of alleged Russian war crimes that his team are currently investigating in the Kharkiv region alone, including the discovery of hundreds of bodies in mass graves in Izium. He has more thant 900 investigators on his team, and most of their current work is focused on war crimes cases.for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova — on the charge of illegally deporting thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia.
The video shows the couple abandoning the car to run to safety, but turning around when explosions landed too close to them. They were fired upon again, leaving Bohomaz badly injured. Ponomarova tried to move her husband behind the car and wrap towels around his wounds to stem the bleeding. "I didn't know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy," she later said during the documentary.
The drone footage showed that Ponomarova didn't see this happening behind her, as she continued on foot down the battle-scarred road, even stepping around lines of anti-tank mines.
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