Russian Investigative Committee opens criminal inquiry into Shakhtarsk shelling
MOSCOW. Jan 16 (Interfax) - A criminal inquiry has been opened into the Ukrainian army's bombardment of private houses on the Shakhtarsk outskirts which inflicted severe injuries on 9-year-old Vanya Voronov and killed his 5-year-old brother Artyom, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
The inquiry was opened under articles 356, 105, 30 and 105 of the Russian Criminal Code (the use of forbidden means and methods of war, murder and attempted murder).
"The Investigative Committee is doing everything in its power and beyond that to get these Ukrainian "fighters", both those who ordered to shell residential areas and those who resignedly fulfilled the knowingly criminal orders," Markin said.
He said that detectives knew the names of the Ukrainian servicemen involved in those bombardments.
"I can "gladden" the new "heroes" of Ukraine: we already know their names. Sooner or later all of them will be held responsible not only for the suffering and pain endured by Vanya Voronov and the death of his brother but also for every killed and mutilated Donbas child. If they do not dream of maimed and killed children of Donbas then they will be haunted by fear of unavoidable revenge every day and every minute," Markin said.
"And we will surely call every child killer by name," he promised.