Combatants from the "LNR" who tortured a family in Izium will be tried in absentia.
Four members of the so-called "LNR" were allegedly threatened with execution and subjected to abuse by a couple in Morozovka village, Izum district, in July 2022. They had been abducted. A criminal investigation has been completed, an indictment has been approved, and the case will be heard by the Balakliya district court in the Kharkiv region.
In July 2022, armed militants of the so-called "LNR" entered the home of an elderly couple in the village of Morozovka, Izum district, Kharkiv region. The occupiers searched the property, stole a computer and mobile phones from the victims, and then abducted the pensioners themselves.
The detainees were taken to the village council building, and then were held in the basement of the police station in Balakliya, where the occupiers had set up a makeshift prison. The militants threatened to shoot them if they did not comply with the enemy's regime.
Later, the occupiers left the injured on the road, ordering them to walk home, while they themselves left the scene. The Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office has charged four individuals involved in this crime – residents of the Luhansk region, soldiers of the 202nd rifle company of the mobilization reserve of the 4th separate motorized infantry brigade of the 2nd army corps of the 8th combined arms army of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
In September 2026, they were notified of the suspicion by an official order. The preliminary investigation was completed, and the prosecutor approved the indictment for the crime of mistreatment of civilians. The accused are currently at large, and the case will be heard by the Balakliya District Court in the Kharkiv region by default.