According to the prosecution, on October 28, 2023, in the partially occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in Volnovakha, Anton Sopov and Stanislav Raou, armed with assault rifles with silencers, decimated the Kapkanets family, including two children aged nine and four years.
They were convicted by a military court in Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, for these assassinations, said Tass, citing security sources, and did not give further details on the motive.
During a birthday
The murder of the Kapkanets family sparked immense indignation in Ukraine. “The occupiers killed the Kapkanets family who refused to give up their house and were celebrating a birthday,” said human rights ombudsman Dmitro Lubinets.
After intense bombardments which destroyed a large part of the city, Russian forces seized Volnovakha in the first days of the assault on Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022.
This conviction is a rare example of recognition by Russian institutions of abuses committed by Russian soldiers in the occupied zones, of which Ukrainians, Westerners and international organizations accuse them.
