Russia frees Ukrainian officers detained earlier on suspicion of war crimes

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  • Finalement, les 5 militaires ukrainiens retenus par la Russie ont été rendus à leur pays.

    Five Ukrainian soldiers who crossed in Russia arrested
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    Ukrainian soldiers stand by their camp near Rostov on Aug. 4.
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    MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Five Ukrainian soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of shelling civilian areas of eastern Ukraine and firing into Russia, a Russian law-enforcement agency said on Friday.

    The five were among some 300 Ukrainian soldiers and border guards who were forced by fighting in eastern Ukraine to cross into Russia on Monday, Ukraine said earlier this week .

    Most of those troops have since been returned to Ukraine, but Russia’s Investigative Committee, a law-enforcement agency that reports directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said it detained five officers from a Ukrainian mechanised brigade.

    The Russian agency said it had evidence the brigade had fired indiscriminately between July 19 and Aug 3 into the cities of Krasnodon and Chervonopartizansk in the Luhansk region, one of two the rebels want to detach from Kiev.

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    Russia frees Ukrainian officers detained earlier on suspicion of war crimes
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    Aug. 9, 2014, 2:29 p.m. | Ukraine

    Five Ukrainian officers detained earlier in Russia on suspicion of using prohibited means and methods of warfare in the east of Ukraine will not be prosecuted and will be allowed to return home, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

    It turned out in the course of an investigation that 72nd brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces servicemen Ivan Voitenko and four of his subordinates were obeying orders from their superiors and did not commit crimes against civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine,” Markin told Interfax on Saturday.

    Following the principle of humanity, it has been decided not to indict them and provide them with the opportunity to return to the Ukrainian territory,” Markin said.