Bodies of two civilians with traces of torture were found in a village liberated from the invaders in the Kharkiv region.
According to the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office, a pre-trial investigation has been launched in criminal proceedings on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, involving premeditated murder (part 2 of article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
It is noted that on September 7, the Ukrainian military liberated the village. Grakovo in the Chuguevsky district.
After the de-occupation, a local resident turned to the police and said that the Russian military forced him to bury the bodies of two men.
"On September 9, near the territory of a private household, law enforcement officers found two corpses with gunshot wounds in the back of the head and with signs of torture. According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the victims were killed by Russian servicemen in March during the occupation of the village," the prosecutor's office said.