A 25-year-old Russian soldier is being tried for war crimes on the basis of a large amount of evidence, including phone conversations between him and his wife and a friend, and footage captured by a drone. The man who shot him miraculously survived the accident.
Valeria Ponomarova and Andrey Pohomaz, a married Ukrainian couple, drive to Izum to help his ailing parents in the city occupied by the Russian army. The two take a wrong turn, and suddenly end up much closer than expected to the front line. The Russian soldiers there got scared and opened fire on their car, after which the two tried to flee on foot. This can be seen in the photos taken by a Ukrainian drone last summer CNN They were interested.
Moments later, he shot at the Ukrainians and seriously wounded Bohoms. Pictures show how his wife hangs clothes around him to stop the bleeding. At that moment they are 30 meters away from the Russian soldiers, which means that the Ukrainian soldiers cannot come and rescue them. Although this is not counting the clever Ukrainian, who sends them a drone with a piece of paper. It says “follow me”. Ponomarova followed her, but without success. In the end, Russian soldiers came to the car. They threw the injured Bohmaz on the side of the road.
Miraculously, he survives by crawling out and calling for help. “After a night in that ditch on the road, it started raining and I started shivering. Then I realized I had to get out of there,” he says in the documentary. Follow me. “After 30 or 40 minutes of stumbling around, I got to the Ukrainian soldiers.” Nine months later, he is still receiving treatment for bullet fragments lodged in his head, chest and spine.
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Klim Kerzhaev is the name of the 25-year-old Moscow soldier accused of attempted murder. A war crime under martial law in Ukraine, and he is the first Russian soldier to be tried for it. Ukrainian police officer Sergey Polvinov, who is leading the investigation, says the video is only part of the evidence against the man. Forensic investigations of the vehicle and the area also point to the soldier.
Then there are the intercepted phone calls. In one you hear the soldier say he “killed a man today” and explain the above situation. A day later, call a friend and tell him the same thing again. The man will probably be tried under reinforcement.
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