Two Ukrainian servicemen have confessed to the murder of a mother and daughter
in the Kiev-controlled portion of eastern Ukraine, the local prosecutor's office reported on Wednesday.
The soldiers shot the women in the head with a machine gun.The two residents of the Luganskoe village in the Donetsk region, a 77-year old woman and her 45-year old daughter, were killed on Monday, the statement from the press service of the prosecutor's office in Donetsk region said. The women died of bullet wounds to the head.
An investigation was launched by the local prosecutor's office, which is under the jurisdiction of the Kiev authorities, and two Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were detained.
The soldiers, both in their twenties, have confessed to the murder."It has been established that on June 15 the soldiers entered the house of the victims,
whom they suspected of separatist sympathies, and killed them with machinegun fire," the official statement said.
The two men have been charged with premeditated murder. If found guilty,
they face a jail sentence between seven years and life in prison.
Comment: Kiev is engaged in an 'anti-terrorist operation'. Separatists are now defined as terrorists. It's OK to kill terrorists. These soldiers were just doing their job. Sound logic, right? This is Ukraine's new normal. Take Dmitry Korchinsky, founder and ex-leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian National Self-defense, who
recently said:
Our teachers of democracy are Americans. During the Second World War America maintained all democratic institutions, elections, and so forth, but nevertheless several million American citizens of Japanese origin were deported to concentration camps because of war, because they threatened national security. United States, maintaining democratic standards and high level of humanism in their country, carried out a nuclear strike on Japan, bombed residential neighborhoods in Germany. 80% of cities were bombed by American aviation, the doctrine was to bomb residential neighborhoods in order to demoralize German soldiers.
Ukraine must have the widest level of freedoms, we have little freedom, we need more freedom, but in the frontal zones and on the occupied territories, we must act like the Americans. If we can't regain the territory, they must become uninhabitable. If it can't be ours, it wan't be anybody's.
Hard to argue with that logic! Democracy = concentration camps, nuclear war, bombing civilians.
Comment: Kiev is engaged in an 'anti-terrorist operation'. Separatists are now defined as terrorists. It's OK to kill terrorists. These soldiers were just doing their job. Sound logic, right? This is Ukraine's new normal. Take Dmitry Korchinsky, founder and ex-leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian National Self-defense, who recently said: Hard to argue with that logic! Democracy = concentration camps, nuclear war, bombing civilians.