Yaroslav Hunka and others of his SS division killed no less than 500 residents of the USSR, Russia stated
Moscow:
Russian investigators stated on Friday that they had levelled genocide expenses in opposition to Nazi warfare veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who was inadvertently applauded by Canadian lawmakers final month.
The incident passed off throughout Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s go to to the Canadian parliament and prompted its speaker to resign following world condemnation.
In a press release, Russia’s Investigative Committee stated it charged Hunka in absentia with the “genocide of civilians on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR through the Nice Patriotic Warfare”.
From 23 to twenty-eight February 1944, Hunka and different members of his SS division killed “no less than 500 residents of the USSR” within the village of Huta Pieniacka, it stated.
“Amongst these killed had been Jews and Poles. Folks had been shot, burned in residential homes and likewise within the church,” it added.
Russia stated it was contemplating issuing a global arrest warrant for Hunka, and that it had despatched requests for authorized help to Canada, Poland and Belarus.
Zelensky was within the Canadian parliament as a visitor of honour when the speaker, Anthony Rota, name-checked the aged veteran as a World Warfare II hero, prompting a standing ovation.
Russia shortly seized on the incident, calling for Canada to convey the 98-year-old Nazi veteran to justice.
Moscow has for years tried to color the pro-Western Ukrainian authorities led by Zelensky — who’s Jewish — as neo-Nazi and used this as a pretext for its offensive in Ukraine.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supplied an “unreserved” apology in September, calling the incident a “horrible mistake”.
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