Russia’s Investigative Committee has identified nine militants involved in the murders of Russian Su-24M fighter pilot Oleg Peshkov and marine Alexander Pozynich, as well as in the attempted murder of Su-24M navigator Konstantin Murakhtin in Syria in 2015, Committee Spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told TASS.
„During an examination of the accidents scenes in the Syrian province of Latakia, the crash sites of the Russian fighter jet and the rescue team’s helicopter were established, as well as the areas from where illegal armed unit members attacked the pilots after they had ejected, and a house in one of the settlements in the Latakia province, where the perpetrators took Oleg Peshkov’s body,“ she said, adding that „other important evidence was also collected.“ „The collected evidence makes it possible to bring charges against nine Syrian nationals,“ Petrenko pointed out.
She elaborated that all the nine Syrians were charged with participation in the activities of an illegal armed group, accessory to murder and attempted murder, desecration of a human body, as well as with weapons, ammunition and personal property theft.
According to Petrenko, the nine militants have been arrested in absentia, while the Investigative Committee has also issued international arrest warrants for them.
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