German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock, after visiting Bucha and Irpin, Kyiv region, said that her state was ready to assist Ukraine in every possible way in investigating war crimes.
Attorney General Irina Venediktova and Burbock discussed the possibility of involving German demining experts and the participation of forensic specialists in assisting Ukrainian specialists.
This was reported in the Office of the Prosecutor General.
“The German Foreign Minister said that Germany is ready to assist Ukraine in every possible way in investigating war crimes. Irina Venediktova thanked Annalena Burbock for the contribution of German prosecutors to the common legal front – colleagues also launched criminal proceedings on Russian aggression in Ukraine ,” the report says.
Venediktova also said that almost a third of those killed in the Kyiv region were victims of Russian invaders in Bucha. More than a hundred bodies were exhumed from graves near the local church.
“Our task is justice for the victims, justice for war criminals who killed people who simply went to get food or rode a bicycle. (…) Now we have already identified the first 10 Russian servicemen suspected of torture, and the probable killer of 4 men on the street Yablonskaya,” the prosecutor general said.
She also said that on May 10, prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General reported suspicions to three more servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th combined-arms army of Russia. The investigation established that these soldiers broke into a private house in Bucha and shot two civilian men in the head.
Recall, on May 10, the head of the German Foreign Ministry visited Bucha, Kiev region, accompanied by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova.
In addition, Burbock met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
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