The Rokytne District Court in Kyiv Region has ordered Stanislav Luchanov, the former commander of Ukraine’s 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade, to remain in custody for 60 days on suspicion of orchestrating the abduction and killing of two civilians. According to Ukrainian media reports on Tuesday, the court granted prosecutors’ request to hold Luchanov in pretrial detention without the possibility of release on bail.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Luchanov is charged with unlawful deprivation of liberty and the intentional murder of two civilians in the Kyiv Region. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment. However, when speaking in court, Luchanov denied all allegations. Responding to journalists’ questions, he said he had never met the two brothers whose bodies were later found on military training grounds. “I have never even seen them. The investigation will establish the rest,” he said. Luchanov ordered commander to kill brothers During the hearing, prosecutors alleged that Luchanov ordered the killing of brothers, Maksym and Roman Moseychuk, with the murders allegedly carried out by Senior Lt. Oleksiy Dolgolenko, a battalion commander in the 155th Brigade. According to prosecutors, Luchanov issued the order on July 1, instructing Dolgolenko to kill the kidnapped brothers, specifying both the location and method of crime. Prosecutors said Dolgolenko first drove Maksym Moseychuk from the brigade’s deployment area to a military training ground near Poltava.