Posted on 10/20/2023 12:41:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
A 98-year-old Ukrainian war veteran Yaroslav Hunka has been charged with genocide by Russia.
Along with other members of his SS division, Hunka killed "at least 500 citizens of the USSR" in the village of Huta Pieniacka, now part of Ukraine, between February 23 and 28, 1944, Russia claims.
In a statement, Russia's Investigative Committee said it charged Hunka in absentia with the "genocide of civilians on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR during the Great Patriotic War".
"Among those killed were Jews and Poles. People were shot, burned in residential houses and also in the church," it added.
The predominantly Ukrainian Galicia Division has been found guilty of war crimes by commissions in Germany and Poland, and historians say its members took part in several massacres.
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The Irony!
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