The security service of Ukraine and the prosecutor's office reported the suspicion that he was not present to the Russian general, who ordered to hit the residential areas of Pokrovsk using "Smerch" in February 2023.
The Security Service and the Prosecutor's Office documented another war crime committed by the commander of the Moscow Military District in the Russian Federation, Colonel General Sergey Kozolev.
According to the investigation, the official is involved in organizing a massive shelling of the civil infrastructure of the Donetsk region with heavy weapons, which led to the death of local residents.
It was determined that in February 2023, Kozolavov planned and ordered an attack on the residential district of Pokrovsk with Smerch and Tornado-S multiple rocket systems.
It is documented that as a result of one of these attacks, three civilians were killed, another eleven were injured in varying degrees of severity.
As the investigation revealed, at that time the Russian general was the commander of the southern military district of the attacking country.
Kozolav used units of the Russian Federation's 439th Reactive Artillery Division to shell civilian objects.
According to the investigation, the rioters attacked the residential buildings of the center of the district from the firing positions of Russian anti-aircraft guns in Mekebka temporarily.
On the basis of new evidence, SBU investigators informed Kosovo in absentia of the suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws of war and customs of war, combined with intentional murder).
Since the criminal is in the territory of the Russian Federation, comprehensive measures are taken to bring him to justice.
As you may recall, earlier the security service informed Rashist in his absence about the suspicion of organizing an attack by "Iskander" at a cafe in Kramatorsk in June 2023.
The investigation was carried out by employees of the main directorate of the SBU in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the procedural guidance of the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office.