The Security Service of Ukraine has served a notice of suspicion to the Commander of a Russian Air Regiment who commanded the strikes on Ukraine's power grid with X-101 missiles, the agency's press service reports.
This is Colonel Oleg Skitskiy, commander of the 121st Heavy Bomber Regiment of the Russian Air Force.
SBU officers documented that, on the orders of the official, his subordinates carried out massive air attacks on Ukraine's energy system.
The main targets of the Russians were key energy generating enterprises and power substations in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsya Regions.
To fire on the energy facilities, the Russians launched Tu-95 bomber aircraft, from which they fired strategic cruise missiles X-101 at Ukraine.
The Russian shelling resulted in deaths and dozens of injuries among the civilian population of Ukraine.
In addition, Russia's attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure led to massive power outages in residential buildings, hospitals, schools and kindergartens during the cold season.
Based on the evidence collected, SBU investigators served Skitskyy a notice of suspicion in absentia under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of warfare committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).
Comprehensive measures are being taken to bring him to justice for crimes against our state.