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  • Ukraine charges three Russian commanders for killing 20 people in Chernihiv’s shop queue in 2022
    Ukraine has charged three Russian commanders suspected of ordering the rocket attack on a residential area of Chernihiv with Grad multiple launch rocket systems in 2022. The attack killed 20 people and wounded 28, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported. The identification of Russian war criminals is a key tool in holding the guilty accountable and restoring justice. There are also cases when, after the publication of the data on Russian perpetrators, they were eliminated on the battlefield o
     
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Ukraine charges three Russian commanders for killing 20 people in Chernihiv’s shop queue in 2022

Par :Olena Mukhina
15 juillet 2025 à 12:29

Ukraine has charged three Russian commanders suspected of ordering the rocket attack on a residential area of Chernihiv with Grad multiple launch rocket systems in 2022. The attack killed 20 people and wounded 28, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.

The identification of Russian war criminals is a key tool in holding the guilty accountable and restoring justice. There are also cases when, after the publication of the data on Russian perpetrators, they were eliminated on the battlefield or behind the front lines. For instance, last week, Ukrainian forces eliminated a Russian drone unit responsible for the killing of a one-year-old boy in Kherson Oblast. 

The Prosecutor General’s Office, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, has identified Colonel Oleg Kurygin, a commander of the 35th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian 41st Army, as well as two subordinates, Major Ramis Zagretdinov and Captain Timur Suleymanov, who were responsible for battalion tactical groups.

On the morning of 16 March 2022, they ordered a massive strike on the residential area using unguided rockets, despite the absence of any nearby military targets. At that time, civilians were standing near a shop buying groceries.

“Russian military personnel were aware they were using weapons against civilians. This was a deliberate attack on the civilian population,” the Prosecutor General’s Office emphasizes.

Under international law, such actions constitute a war crime. The commanders are charged with violations of the laws of war, combined with the intentional murder of a group of persons by prior conspiracy.

The documentation of war crimes was conducted by the public organizations Truth Hounds and Global Rights Compliance.

According to the investigation, Kurygin personally gave the order to shell using high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, and his unit temporarily controlled the border areas of Chernihiv Oblast in 2022.

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