MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. Daniil Bessarabov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for State Building and Legislation, on Tuesday said the accusations of perfidy and breaking the laws of warfighting that Ukrainian prosecutors made against Russian servicemen were a pathetic attempt to evade the responsibility for killing the prisoners of war in Makeyevka.
"It’s a pathetic attempt by the stupefied government in Kiev to dodge responsibility. The world was shaken by that news. Not just Russia, but also the world community. A cold-blooded murder of captured servicemen by shots at the back of the head. [The Ukrainian government] is trying to dodge responsibility by coming up with counteraccusations," the lawmaker told TASS.
Bessarabov said that attempt to avoid responsibility is primitive. He said the State Duma on Tuesday adopted an appeal to parliaments of all countries of the world, "to all sensible people not to let this fact be downplayed, not to let the guilty escape responsibility, but to identify them and make sure they stand a fair trial."
"Impunity breeds more impunity, more horrific crimes. This must be understood by the world community," he said. "I fully support the efforts of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to establish all the facts, the whole picture of the crime in order to collect evidence and present it to an international tribunal, where the leaders of this Kiev regime, not just the perpetrators, will go on trial."
The Russian Investigative Committee earlier started an investigation into the shooting of captive Russian soldiers by Ukrainian forces. The committee said on Friday that the investigation was started based on a "video where representatives of Ukrainian armed formations shoot at least 11 unarmed Russian servicemen that they took prisoner on the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic."
The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general on Tuesday said Russian soldiers that were shot dead after surrendering to Ukrainian forces in the village of Makeyevka of the LPR were accused of perfidy and an investigation was started into the incident as a breach of the laws of warfighting.