Commander of Chechen Akhmat unit charged with torturing and looting Kherson civilians

According to him, prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office have served in absentia a notice of suspicion to a platoon commander of the Akhmat special unit for mistreating civilians and committing other war crimes.

The investigation found that in November 2022, together with accomplices, he broke into the yard of an entrepreneur’s family in Kherson. Threatening a woman and her son, he demanded to know the whereabouts of the father. When he did not receive an answer, he brutally beat and tortured the young man in front of his mother.

When the father returned home, the Russian military used his son as a hostage and demanded 80,000 dollars for his life. After taking the money, the criminals forced the family to sign fabricated "purchase agreements" for their property.

"This has nothing to do with war. This is terror, abuse, and a crime that grossly violates international humanitarian law. The identification of his accomplices is ongoing. No torturer, no looter will escape accountability. There is no statute of limitations," Kravchenko emphasized.

Earlier, Ukrainian law enforcement authorities served a notice of suspicion to Russian National Guard Lieutenant General Vladimir Spiridonov, who commanded the dispersal of peaceful protests in settlements across the Kherson region.

Law enforcement officers have also identified 57 collaborators who joined the so-called Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region, created by the Russian forces on the left bank of the region and took part in torturing Ukrainians.