Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said that, according to preliminary information, the Russian soldiers may have thought the boy was taking a picture of something, so they seized him, brought him home, and shot him while his family watched.
A Ukrainian court sentenced four Ukrainians charged with fighting together with Russian-led militants against Ukraine to 12 and 15 years in prison, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Dec. 21. They were convicted of treason and participation in a terrorist organization.
The Prosecutor General's Office has been investigating information received from former Russian soldier Ihor Salikov, who expressed his desire to testify in the International Criminal Court (ICC) about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.