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Judge In Moscow-Occupied Ukraine Shot And Wounded

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By Nebianet Usaini
Updated November 5, 2022
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This photograph taken on November 4, 2022, shows empty graves after the exhumation of bodies in the mass graves dug during the Russian’s occupation in the town of Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – A DNA laboratory was deployed this week in the town of Izyum to help relatives of the 450 bodies found in mass burial sites to formally identify the remains of their loved ones without going through the gruelling visual examination. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
This photograph taken on November 4, 2022, shows empty graves after the exhumation of bodies in the mass graves dug during the Russian’s occupation in the town of Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – A DNA laboratory was deployed this week in the town of Izyum to help relatives of the 450 bodies found in mass burial sites to formally identify the remains of their loved ones without going through the gruelling visual examination. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

 

 

A judge in a Ukrainian town controlled by Moscow was in a “serious” condition after surviving an assassination attempt, a separatist leader in Donetsk said Saturday.

“There was attempt with the use of firearms on a judge of the Supreme Court of the Donetsk Republic Alexander Nikulin,” the rebel leader of the self-proclaimed republic, Denis Pushilin, said on Telegram.

He blamed Kyiv, saying the attack took place on Friday evening in the town of Vuhlehirsk, in the eastern Donetsk region.

“The Ukrainian regime continues to show its vile terrorist methods,” Pushilin added, saying the judge had been “giving sentences to Nazi war criminals.”

“His condition is assessed by doctors to be stable but serious,” he added.

Russia regularly calls Ukrainian armed forces “Nazis” and President Vladimir Putin has said he sent troops to Ukraine last February to “de-Nazify” the country.

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