Historic Event: Ukraine Handed Over To Lithuania A Russian Military Officer Who Tortured People

For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

For the first time since the beginning of a full-scale invasion, Ukraine has handed over a Russian serviceman to another state for real criminal prosecution for war crimes.

This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to a statement by Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.

"This is a historic and important precedent for the entire system of international justice. On October 30, the Vilnius District Court took the suspect into custody for three months at the request of the prosecutor of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office," the Prosecutor General noted.

According to Kravchenko, it is about a senior sailor of the Russian Armed Forces military police whom the Ukrainian military took prisoner in the Zaporizhzhya direction near Robotino.

"According to our data, he was involved in illegal detention, torture and inhuman treatment of civilians and prisoners of war. Beatings, electric torture, suffocation, keeping people in metal safes and other horrors that are even hard to imagine, all this he used together with other military men of his unit," he added.

Moreover, as the Prosecutor General explained, one of his victims was a Lithuanian citizen. Therefore, he is suspected in Lithuania under articles of the Criminal Code for war crimes, torture, illegal deprivation of liberty, violation of the Geneva Conventions.

"For what he has done, he may be in prison for life. I would like to note that this was possible thanks to the effective work of the Joint Investigation Team "The Case of Ukraine" and partnership with Lithuanian colleagues. This is not just a legal action. This is a clear signal to every war criminal: you will not be able to hide from responsibility in any country of the free world. Justice will take place," he noted.

Kravchenko added that he had constructive communication with the president of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and Lithuanian Prosecutor General Nidaia Grunskene on this issue.

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