Russian-backed separatist head says Azov trial to begin this summer

Trial of captured personnel from Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to begin this summer, likely in Mariupol

The head of the Russian-backed separatist administration in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on Wednesday that a trial of captured personnel from Ukraine’s Azov Regiment would take place by the end of the summer, likely in the city of Mariupol.

Though the Azov prisoners have not yet been formally charged, on Aug. 2 Russia’s supreme court ruled the regiment was a terrorist organization, clearing the way for captured fighters to be charged as such. Pushilin spoke at the Donetsk region’s Olenivka prison, where 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, including Azov fighters, were killed on July 29 during shelling that both Ukraine and Russia have blamed on each other.

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