MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. Russia’s Investigative Committee has held criminally liable former chief of the Ukrainian General Staff Sergey Shaptal responsible for the killings of about 5,000 civilians, the press office of the investigative agency told TASS.
"Lieutenant General of the Ukrainian armed forces Sergey Shaptal who held the post of the chief of the Ukrainian General Staff from July 2021 to February 2024 has been held criminally liable. The investigation has established his complicity in military operations against civilians of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as a result of which almost 5,000 people were killed and over 13,000 others suffered wounds of varying severity," the press office said in a statement.
The Russian Investigative Committee has issued a resolution to press charges against Shaptal. He has been placed on an international wanted list and arrested in absentia, it said.
In addition, Russian investigators have concluded a criminal probe against Lithuanian citizen Romualdas Liutkus, the press office reported.
"It has been established that in September 2024 he damaged the burial site of Soviet soldiers in the settlement of Krekenava in the Panevezys district of Lithuania. Also, in an interview with a Lithuanian TV channel in September-October 2024, Liutkus insulted twice the memory of Fatherland defenders who had fallen in the liberation of the Lithuanian SSR from German fascist invaders," the Investigative Committee concluded.
