Russian soldiers are convicted of war crimes

Published 10 November 2024 at 11.08

Foreign. A court in Russia's Rostov-na-Donu has convicted two of the country's soldiers for murdering a Ukrainian family of nine in Russian-occupied Ukraine, CBS reports.

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The incident occurred in the Russian-occupied town of Volnovacha in October last year.

The convicts are between 20 and 30 years old and the crime was classified as mass murder with hate motives.

The massacre occurred when the soldiers demanded that the family leave their home and let the soldiers live there instead.

When the family refused, the deed was carried out.

Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets in Ukraine describes the incident as part of the Russian occupiers' violence against civilians in the country.

The town of Volnovacha has suffered greatly during the war and is reportedly almost completely destroyed.

The condemned soldiers must have previously been part of the Wagner Group, but were the deed connected to the regular Russian army, according to the US news channel Radio Free Europe.