Donetsk, Oct 13 — DAN. The Donetsk People’s Republic Supreme Court has sentenced a Ukrainian serviceman to life imprisonment for shooting and killing civilians in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK) reported on Friday.
“The Supreme Court said that the evidence gathered by the SK was sufficient for sentencing Denis Mirza, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Service of a separate marine battalion, ” the SK said.
Mirza was found guilty of hate murder, attempted murder and cruel treatment of civilians in occupied territory. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security penitentiary.
In March 2022, he shot and killed a civilian on the premises of the Mariupol High Metallurgical Engineering College. Together with his comrade, he also killed two civilians in the college cellar, and ordered to kill three more civilians in a street, the investigator and the court said.
The criminal cases against two other Ukrainian gunmen involved in these crimes are on trial.*jk