Russian investigator says over 30 Ukrainian ‘nationalists’ jailed for war crimes

Russia’s top investigator said on Wednesday that more than 30 Ukrainians had been given long jail terms in Russian-held Ukraine for committing what he described as serious crimes such as killing civilians.
Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, Russia’s equivalent of the U.S. FBI, said courts operating on territory in parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by Russian forces had been working hard to jail people who had fought on the Ukrainian side against Russian forces.
Bastrykin told Russia’s TASS news agency, “After the liberation of Mariupol and other settlements, many Ukrainian nationalists surrendered. In the course of further work, we began to establish their involvement in crimes against peace and human security, including the killing of civilians.”
He said 90 criminal cases had been sent to courts.