ロシア軍事裁、ウクライナ兵に懲役１９年　民間人殺害の罪

【モスクワＡＦＰ＝時事】ロシアの軍事裁判所は８日、同国の支配下にあったウクライナ・マリウポリで民間人を殺害した罪で起訴され、ロシア国内で拘束されていたウクライナ兵に対し、懲役１９年を言い渡した。（写真はロシア・ロストフナドヌーの裁判所に出廷したウクライナ兵アントン・チェレドニク被告）
　ロシア側の捜査によると、ウクライナ海軍の歩兵アントン・チェレドニク被告は、当時ロシア軍が掌握していたマリウポリ市内で巡回に当たっていた際、ロシアからの潜入者と疑われた民間人２人を呼び止め、うち１人を殺害したとされる。
　ロシア南部を管轄する、ロストフナドヌーの軍事裁は８日、チェレドニク被告に対し、殺人などの罪で懲役１９年を言い渡した。最初の３年は刑務所に収監され、残る刑期は矯正労働収容所で務めるという。
　前日７日には、ウクライナ東部のロシア側当局がウクライナ兵４人に対し、マリウポリでの戦闘の最中に民間人を暴行したとして、各被告に長期刑を科していた。
　一方ウクライナ側も、戦争犯罪を犯したとして複数のロシア兵を裁判にかけ、有罪判決を言い渡している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/11/09-17:40）

Russian military courts on Wednesday sentenced two Ukrainian soldiers to 19 and 20 years in prison for allegedly shooting civilians in separate incidents in Mariupol in 2022.
At the start of the conflict last year, Russian forces launched an intense assault on Mariupol, a port city home to more than 400,000 people before the conflict, destroying large swathes in weeks of air strikes, shelling and gun battles.
Russian investigators said Anton Cherednik, a member of Ukraine's naval infantry, killed one man in the southern Ukrainian city -- which was under siege by Russian forces at the time -- after stopping two civilians while on a patrol.
Russia's southern district military court in Rostov-on-Don found Cherednik guilty of murder, trying to violently seize power, the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare and committing a terrorist act.
It sentenced him to 19 years -- the first three in prison, and the rest in a Russian penal colony.
Prosecutors said Cherednik shot one of the men after an exchange about a Ukrainian type of bread, palyanitsa, an unfamiliar and difficult word for Russians to pronounce.
Under questioning, he acknowledged shooting the man, but said it was because he had flinched as if he was going to pull out a weapon, not because he had incorrectly pronounced a word, Russian media reported.
At Wednesday's hearing, Cherednik sat in a glass dock at the front of a cage, with a shaved head and in dark clothes.
He pleaded guilty to murder, but rejected the other charges against him and intends to appeal the sentence, his lawyers told Russian media.
Separately, a court in Russian-controlled Donetsk sentenced a serviceman named Sergei Dumchik to 20 years in a strict regime penal colony.
Prosecutors said Dumchik shot at a car carrying three civilians who managed to escape.
Russia took thousands of Ukrainian soldiers captive after the fall of Mariupol, with some sent to Russia and others held in occupied eastern Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Russian-installed authorities in eastern Ukraine sentenced four other captive Ukrainian soldiers to long sentences for alleged violence against civilians during last year's battle for Mariupol.
Ukraine has tried and sentenced a number of Russian soldiers on war crimes charges committed during the conflict.