A former MMA fighter became the first Russian soldier suspected of killing civilians in the town of Bucha, Ukraine, during weeks of occupation.
Sergei Kolotsei, a commander of a unit of Russia’s National Guard, was accused of torturing and murdering civilians by the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova.
“Prosecutors of Bucha have established that this very military serviceman killed four unarmed men in Bucha on March 18,” Venediktova wrote on Facebook along with a photo identifying the suspect. “He also tortured another civilian on March 29, forcing him to confess to saboteur activities against Russian troops.