The Russian sergeant received two years to kill a Ukrainian officer in Crimea

The judge of the occupying Crimean garrison military court, Rizwan Zubairov, sentenced the Russian junior sergeant Yevgeny Zaitsev to two years of the general regime for the murder of Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Stanislav Karachevsky. This was announced on Twitter by lawyer Mark Feigin. Zaitsev was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder), which provides from 6 to 15 years in the colony.

As noted on the court’s website, the verdict was sentenced on March 13. Nevertheless, the media did not report him before Feigin's post.

Karachevsky, who served in the 10th Saki Marine Aviation Brigade and, after the Russian annexation of Crimea, was preparing to travel to continental Ukraine, was killed on the night of April 7, 2014 in a hostel for the military in the village of Novofedorovka, the Saki district as a result of a quarrel between the armed Russian military and unarmed Ukrainian. Zaitsev killed Major with two shots at point -blank. Another Ukrainian officer, captain Artem Ermolenko, was brutally beaten.

Later, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported the details of the incident . On April 6, Karachevsky helped to collect Ermolenko’s things, preparing for departure from the Crimea. After that, they returned with another comrade home. On the checkpoint, units of the Ukrainian military entered the conversation with armed Russian, carrying service there.

“After these negotiations, the Russians called the strengthening group,” the Ministry of Defense noted in the message. “Ukrainian officers tried to find asylum in a hostel. In the process of persecution on all five floors, Russians blew up light -Shuman grenades. Captain Ermolenko managed to hide in the room. At that time, the murderer, the Russian junior sergeant, shot from the machine gun of Major Karachevsky: one bullet of Major: one bullet - In the body, the other is in the head. "

Karachevsky had two children: a 5-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.

As the Crimea News transferred with reference to the Crimean field mission for human rights, the trial of Zaitsev began in February. At the same time, the junior sergeant all the time of the investigation and the court remained free and served in the same regime as before the murder of Karachevsky. “Witnesses of the consideration of the case note that it is not guarded by escort during the court, there are no handcuffs on it,” the human rights activists noted.