Moscow -- The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on the counts of the use of forbidden means of warfare in connection with the death of Channel One cameraman Anatoly Klyan in Donetsk, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin reported.
“A criminal case has been opened over the murder of A. Klyan in Donetsk under article 356 [the use of forbidden means of warfare] and article 105 [murder of a person in the line of duty in a socially dangerous way] of the Russian Criminal Code,” Markin told Interfax on Monday.
The criminal case will soon be merged with an earlier criminal inquiry into the use of forbidden means and methods of warfare by servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian National Guard and Right Sector gunmen, he said.
“The Russian television channel employee has fallen victim to the Ukrainian authorities which flagrantly ignore the universal norms of the protection of the civilian population in a military conflict. The Investigative Committee will continue to gather evidence of the crimes and will do its best consistent with the current legislation to punish every culprit of these crimes,” Markin said.
Detectives of a recently formed department of the Russian Investigative Committee on the use of forbidden means and methods of warfare are working on this case, he said.
Channel One confirmed the death of its cameraman Anatoly Klyan in Donetsk earlier.
