MOSCOW: A Russian courtroom sentenced two troopers to life in jail for the bloodbath of a household of 9 individuals of their house in occupied Ukraine, state media reported on Friday (Nov 8).
Russian prosecutors mentioned in October 2023, the 2 Russian troopers, Anton Sopov and Stanislav Rau, entered the house of the Kapkanets household within the metropolis of Volnovakha with weapons outfitted with silencers.
They then shot all 9 relations who lived there, together with two youngsters aged 5 and 9.
The southern district army courtroom in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the 2 males to life in jail for mass homicide “motivated by political, ideological, racial, nationwide or spiritual hatred”, the state-run TASS information company reported, citing an unnamed regulation enforcement supply.
The incident triggered uproar in Ukraine.
Kyiv alleged on the time that the Russian troopers had murdered the household of their sleep after they refused to maneuver out of their house to permit Russian troopers to reside there.
“The occupiers killed the Kapkanets household, who have been celebrating a birthday and refused to surrender their house,” Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets mentioned a day after the homicide.
Russian forces seized the town of Volnovakha in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area at the beginning of their full-scale army offensive.
It was just about destroyed by Russian artillery strikes.
