Russian man who killed Ukrainian soldiers in Germany is charged: details of the high-profile case

A Russian man suspected of murdering two wounded Ukrainian soldiers in Germany has been charged. The investigation found that the 57-year-old suspect was drinking with the Ukrainians on the day of the murder, and when they started talking about the war and the opinions of the interlocutors did not coincide, he stabbed his friends.

Two Ukrainian defenders in Germany were recuperating from combat operations, prosecutors said in a Munich court on Wednesday, October 23. The suspect's name was not disclosed following German privacy rules, the Associated Press reports.

He was arrested shortly after the stabbing in the small Bavarian town of Murnau on April 27.

Prosecutors said that the suspect and the two victims knew each other slightly from previous encounters.

On the day of the attack, the three men were drinking together and arguing about the war in Ukraine, "which made the accused feel that his national pride had been hurt," the statement said.

The suspect "decided to kill the two Ukrainians, who had been drinking heavily, in a surprise attack," prosecutors added and brought a knife from his neighboring apartment.

One of the Ukrainians was killed immediately, and the other died later from his wounds.

Prosecutors said that "as an adherent of exaggerated Russian nationalism, (the suspect) unconditionally supports Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine."

Two Ukrainians were taken to Germany for treatment after being wounded in the war. They underwent surgeries in a hospital in Murnau and recovered in the city.

Both were significantly "physically limited" as a result of the surgeries, prosecutors said.

As reported, on the evening of April 27, two Ukrainians with stab wounds were found on the territory of a shopping center in Murnau, Upper Bavaria. One of them, a 36-year-old man, died on the spot. The other, a 23-year-old man, died in the hospital.

The police quickly detained the suspect, a 57-year-old Russian man. According to German media, he was "well-known in pro-Putin circles" and was drunk at the time of his arrest.

Both Ukrainians turned out to be military personnel and were undergoing rehabilitation in Germany.

Viacheslav Bezuhlyi, 23, was from the Cherkasy region. His brother also defended Ukraine and went missing at the front. Volodymyr Kozin, 36, was from Kakhovka, Kherson region. When the city was occupied, he and his family left. He was trained in the UK and then took part in the battles for Bakhmut. He was wounded twice, risking his life to bring his comrade from the battlefield.

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