Russia’s Investigative Committee announced Tuesday that it will charge four high-ranking Ukrainian officers with “terrorism” that it believes are responsible for drone attacks on Russian soil, The Moscow Times reported.

These are 4: the head of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence in Kyiv, General Kyrylo Budanov, the Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine, General Mykola Olestiuk, the Commander of the Navy of Ukraine, Vice-Admiral Oleksiy Neijapa, and the Commander of the 383rd Unmanned Brigade, Colonel Serhiy Burdenyuk. Aviation brigade.

“It was also established that the accused involved their subordinates in the commission of the crimes,” the Moscow Investigative Committee said in a statement.

This institution, which was originally founded by the Moscow government as an anti-corruption agency, has over the years acquired much broader powers than prosecutors’ offices in other European countries, being responsible for investigating a wide range of crimes against the Russian state. .

The committee also stated that they had collected “sufficient evidence” of the involvement of 4 Ukrainian commanders in more than 100 drone strikes on Moscow, the Crimean Peninsula and regions on the Russian-Ukrainian border: Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and others. Russia claims that at least 100 civilians were killed in these attacks.

The Russian authorities also announced that they would prosecute 4 Ukrainian commanders.

General Budanov, wanted by Russia for shelling the Kerch Bridge

Since April of this year, Russia has issued an arrest warrant for General Kirill Budanov, accusing him of organizing “terrorist attacks” on the territory of Russia.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) previously said Budanov orchestrated the attack that last October damaged the Kerch bridge linking Russia with Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.

Russia also accused Ukrainian intelligence agents led by Budanov of being responsible for the bombings that killed Daria Dugin, the daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue Oleksandr Dugin, and military blogger Vladlen Tatarskyi.

The Russian Investigative Committee’s indictment of Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neijhapa seems a somewhat odd move, given that Ukraine no longer has a de facto naval force with which to launch airstrikes after the bulk of its navy was seized during the occupation of Crimea for 8 years. ago.

Russian prosecutors may prosecute Neijapa for the naval drone attacks on Sevastopol and other Russian Black Sea ports.

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