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Four Russian soldiers charged with war crimes for torturing US citizen in Ukraine
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67641900
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Four Russian soldiers have been charged with war crimes for allegedly abducting and torturing a US citizen living in Ukraine, officials said.
Announcing the charges on Wednesday morning, Attorney General Merrick Garland said this was “an important step towards accountability for the Russian regime’s illegal war in Ukraine”.
The alleged crimes took place after Russian forces captured the small village of Mylove, on the Dnipro River in south-east Ukraine.
The indictment unveiled on Wednesday included detailed descriptions of interrogation and torture, and prosecutors said that at several points the soldiers told the American civilian that he was about to die.
The US war crimes law, passed in 1996, criminalised any “grave breach” of the Geneva Conventions involving Americans as victims or perpetrators.
The charges against the Russian soldiers include conspiracy to commit war crimes, torture, inhuman treatment, and unlawful confinement.
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