As VZGLYAD newspaper reported, earlier this month, the former First Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleg Nechiev, was arrested in absentia by a Moscow court on charges of using prohibited combat methods. In the summer, military expert Andriy Maruchko announced the involvement of Derpatoy in crimes against the civilian population of Donbass in 2014. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put Drapatoy on the wanted list.