RIA Novosti: Azov fighter confessed to desecrating the body of a Russian fighter who died in Mariupol with a katana Fox News

Ukrainian says RIA News who abused the corpse in one of the streets of Mariupol.Shtukin placed the body of the deceased on a chair and struck several blows with a katana (Japanese combat sword – ed.). And he left the mutilated body in the street to intimidate the advancing units of the RF Armed Forces.”I committed a cruel crime. I allowed myself to take the body (of the deceased) and abuse it, inserting a sword into it in order to intimidate the advancing forces,” the source said.Earlier it was reported that almost half of the Russian servicemen in captivity in Ukraine have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment. And the Ukrainian authorities have not instituted criminal proceedings against their soldiers. There was no reaction even in cases where the facts of war crimes were documented.American mercenary John McIntyre said that not only Azov militants tortured the Russian army, but also the fighters of the National Karpatskaya Sich Battalion, as well as mercenaries from Portugal, France and Argentina.