For the first time since the beginning of the war: Ukraine handed over a captured Russian occupier to Lithuania (video)

"Beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, keeping people in metal safes and other horrors that are hard to imagine, he used all this together with other soldiers of his unit. One of his victims was a citizen of Lithuania," he explained. In Lithuania, he is suspected under articles of the Criminal Code for war crimes, torture, illegal deprivation of liberty, violation of the Geneva Conventions. For everything he committed, he faces life imprisonment.

"I want to note that this became possible thanks to the effective work of the Joint Investigative Group "Affairs of Ukraine" and partnership with Lithuanian colleagues," Kravchenko wrote. According to him, what happened was not just a legal action. "This is a clear signal to every war criminal: you will not be able to hide from responsibility in any country of the free world.

Justice will be served," the Prosecutor General assured, adding that this is exactly what he discussed with the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and the Prosecutor General of Lithuania Nida Grunskene. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, in 2022 the Russian occupiers created a filtration camp on the territory of the airfield in Melitopol. There they illegally detained, tortured and tortured civilians and held Ukrainian prisoners of war.

People were starved, tortured with electric current, beaten and kept in inhumane conditions. The main performers are employees of the FSB, the GRU and security forces from the occupied territories. A citizen of Lithuania is among those who experienced it. The sailor in question was captured in 2023, and he was identified as one of those who tortured Ukrainians and Lithuanians.

More than 30 investigative actions were carried out, after which the Prosecutor General decided to hand him over to Lithuania for justice, which became a precedent from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Armed Forces into Ukraine. We will remind that the captured occupier near Pokrovsk talked about the motivation in the Russian Armed Forces. It was also reported that a captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been in a cellar in Ugledar for 46 days without food.