The SSU has collected irrefutable evidence of war crimes committed by three russian soldiers:

• lieutenant colonel Andriy MARUSHKIN, commander of the 15th separate guards motorized rifle Alexandria brigade;
• contract servicemen Oleksiy TOKMAKOV and Oleksiy KROSHKIN.

In the period from March 1 to March 30, 2022, lieutenant colonel Marushkin gave criminal orders to fire from artillery at populated areas and civilian facilities.

This caused significant destruction of civilian facilities and death of peaceful citizens. In particular, this ruscist’s orders affected people in:

• 6 villages in Brovary district, Kyiv region: Lukyanivka, Pershotravneve, Hoholiv, Svitylnia, Bohdanivka, Shevchenkove;
• 3 villages of Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region: Nova Basan, Stara Basan, Novy Bykiv.

The russian serviceman has been notified of suspicion under 2 articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• 437.2 (waging an aggressive war or aggressive military actions);
• 28.2 (committing criminal offense by a group of persons upon on a prior conspiracy).

As for the two contractors of the russian armed forces, on March 11, they killed a resident of Hostomel, who refused to help the occupiers unload ammunition.

According to an eyewitness’s testimony, Oleksiy Tokmakov gave a knowingly criminal order to shoot the civilian, and his subordinate, contractor Oleksiy Kroshkin, carried out this order.

Within this criminal proceeding, the SSU also established the locations of the headquarters of two separate military units that occupied Hostomel, and seized personnel lists of the ‘elite’ police unit of the national guard of russia.

The SSU will continue to establish personal involvement of russian military servicemen in crimes against civilians.

The SSU carried out the investigation under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.