KYIV: Two captured Russian dogfaces contended shamefaced on Thursday to shelling a city in eastern Ukraine in the alternate war crimes trial of the war.
At the trial in the Kotelevska quarter court in central Ukraine, state prosecutors asked for Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov to be jugged 12 times for violating the laws of war.
A defense counsel asked for charity, saying the two dogfaces had been following orders and lamented.
Bobikin and Ivanov, who stood in a corroborated glass box, conceded being part of an ordnance unit that fired at targets in the Kharkiv region from the Belgorod region in Russia. The shelling destroyed an educational establishment in the city of Derhachi, the prosecutors said. The soldiers, described as an ordnance motorist and a gunner, were captured after crossing the border and continuing the shelling, the prosecutor general’s office said.
