Russian teachers in Ukraine are also criminals. But they destroy Ukrainians not physically but spiritually

Politicians should not comment on the Armed Forces offensive to official messages. As they do not have to comment on Russian criminals in advance, the legitimate consequence of the counter -offensive of the Ukrainian army in eastern Ukraine and the release of Ukrainian territories became the question of what to do with local collaborators and their Russian curators.

It is obvious that this work should be carried out by investigators immediately after cleaning the territory of Ukraine by the Armed Forces. They should interview witnesses, examine and preserve the evidence, you need to detain the suspects. This work should be carried out systematically and systematically, in compliance with the laws of Ukraine.

We do not have to close our eyes to collaborators as in 2014, but we also do not have to fall to a different extreme - to blame everyone of military crimes against Ukraine or genocide. The recent statement of the Viceremier-Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk has been the reason for public debate for the assistance of Russian aggression. She reported that in the released Russian invaders in the Kharkiv region detained Russian teachers and they will be tried under Art.

438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - violation of the laws and customs of war. Punishment under this article is up to 12 years in the lattice. Although this statement has not yet been confirmed, it should be analyzed in terms of future actions of the Ukrainian authorities in the de -industrial territories. Spiritual murderers, but not in the spring, news that Russia is looking for volunteers for teaching in Ukraine in the framework of violent Russification of Ukrainian schools.

For this they were promised great as a salary for Russia: about 200,000 rubles a month for work in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukraine, the media there reported. Whereas Rosstat's estimates, the average salary of teachers in Russia at the beginning of 2021 was 45 832 rubles. It is obvious that a certain number of them agreed and came for such money to put machine guns in Ukrainian cities and villages under the muzzle.

Together with them, some Ukrainian correspondent teachers who passed the "retraining" in the Crimea occupied by Russia were transferred to the Russian program. Russian teachers obviously worked on the aggressor country and helped it in suppressing Ukrainian civic resistance, destroying Ukrainian culture and language. They are active accomplices of Russian soldiers, simply tried to destroy Ukrainians not physically, but spiritually.

The difficult task is to find and punish criminal prosecution at the same time is a formal procedure and it is the adherence to procedures and rules that distinguishes civilized European Ukraine from wild and resentment Russia. First, the qualification of crimes in Ukraine is not carried out by the viceremer, but the prosecutor's office. It is the prosecutor who should determine what crime was committed by Russian teachers and their Ukrainian correspondent counterparts, which is a difficult task.

Secondly, they did not exactly commit the military crimes provided for in Art. 438 of the Criminal Code. What is a war crime is determined in the relevant international conventions and customary norms, for which there is a well -established practice in the world. The equation of Russian teachers detained in Ukraine to military criminals in the fact of teaching can be perceived in the world as political persecution, especially when high -ranking executive officials declare it in advance.

Third, the qualification of a particular person's actions depends on the specific circumstances that the investigator should investigate.

In the case of Russian teachers, most likely, the procedure for entry into the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine (Article 332-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), denial Even actions are aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order in Ukraine (Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) or encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine (Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

In any case, criminal liability is individual and is established on the basis of the evidence collected, not in advance on the basis of political statements. We must rigidly defend our independence not only on the battlefield but also in the courts. Russian mercenaries and their collaborators should be convicted by a fair Ukrainian court, they should be given a lawyer and translator, an opportunity to understand what they are accused of, and to give an explanation.