The state prosecution will ask the court to pass down the maximum possible sentences under the Criminal Code of Ukraine against the officers of the Main Investigative Department of the General Command of the Russian Armed Forces, Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov, who will shortly go on trial.
“In regard to corpus delicti, a procedural prosecution, the official prosecution will ask for the maximum sentences under all articles which the officers are suspected [of committing crimes]. What decision will the Ukrainian court pass? I guess there even should be no doubt,” chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios said at a briefing in Kyiv on Aug.26.
Matios said that the two Russians were granted lawyers whose services are being paid for by the Ukrainian state.
He said that the prosecutor’s office plans to send a bill of indictment to the court within the next ten days.
Previously, Matios said that Yerofeyev and Alexandrov are suspected of participation in an aggressive war against Ukraine; transiting weapons and ammunition beyond customs control; keeping and handling fire arms; promoting the activities of a terrorist organization, and committing a terrorist attack which caused Ukrainian military personnel to become casualties.
