Against the 93-year-old participant in the murders in the Katyn prosecuted
Vladimir Katryuk involved In violent deprivation of life of the inhabitants of the Belarusian village of Khatyn in the Second world war, was a defendant in a criminal case under paragraph " genocide ", said the official authorized Investigation Department of Russia Vladimir Markin.
"according to investigators, in the period of the great Patriotic war (1941-1945) Nazi Germany Katryuk joined the ranks of the third company of the 115th German security police Battalion, which in 1942 became part of the 118th German security police Battalion "Schutzmannschaft" (hereinafter - the Battalion 118) under the command of Ukrainian officers and under the General supervision of German officers zonder-Battalion of the SS Dirlewanger SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger unit, according to the report Markina on the Internet representation offices.
"presumably with January 1943 the Battalion 118 and zonder-Battalion of the SS Dirlewanger SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger unit was stationed in the city of the village of plasticy and the city of Logoisk, Minsk oblast, Byelorussian SSR approximately 20 km from the village of Khatyn, Logoisk district, Minsk oblast, Byelorussian SSR ", - said Markin." 23 March 1943 Katryuk, having the rank of Sergeant and being a chief of the first platoon of the first company of the Battalion 118, at the behest of an unidentified German Nazi officers zonder-Battalion of the SS Dirlewanger SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger unit, intentionally, jointly and in concert with the chief of staff of Battalion 118 Gregory Basuray and Deputy commander of the first company of the Battalion 118 Basil Meleshko, as well as other members of the Battalion 118 and military zonder-Battalion of the SS Dirlewanger SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger unit arrived in the village of Khatyn, Logoisk district, Minsk oblast, Byelorussian SSR, to commit mass murders of local residents who are not participating in hostilities ", - said the official authorized SC." in the end were killed 149 civilians, and among them 75 minors and minors and destroyed all the houses, " - said Markin. Just in the period of German occupation troops in different parts of the Byelorussian SSR from 1941 to 1944 was murdered more than 400 thousand civilians.
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