The police and the Main Intelligence Directorate have identified the Russian officer who ordered the shooting of a Bucha resident
On August 14, the National Police announced that they had placed a Russian military officer under suspicion; he was identified as the person who, in 2022, ordered the execution of Igor Gorodetsky, a resident of Bucha. The National Police and the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) collaborated in identifying the military officer.
The Russian was identified with the assistance of analysts from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
He is Yevgeny Vladimirovich Plyusnin (born December 4, 1978)—a native of the village of Pisochnoe in the Vokhomsky District of the Kostroma Region of the Russian Federation.
At the time of the crime, he was a serviceman in the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment of the 76th Airborne Assault Division of the Russian Federation’s Airborne Forces (military unit No. 74268). He held the position of commander of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion Tactical Group. His military rank was captain.
From February 27 to March 30, 2022, he was in Bucha, where his unit was holding Kadenyuk Street and the surrounding streets.
On March 5, 2022, at approximately 7:30 a.m., three Russian soldiers detained a local resident near a house on Yablunska Street in Bucha. Among them was Sergeant Volodymyr Borzunov; the identities of the other two soldiers have not yet been established.
The detainee was a civilian: he was unarmed, had not participated in combat operations, and posed no threat to the Russian soldiers.
The soldiers took him to their commander—Captain Plyusnin—who ordered the detainee to be killed.
Between approximately 7:30 and 10:00 a.m., one of Plyusnin’s subordinates led the man out of the property and took him to house No. 47-A on Leonid Kadenyuk Street. There, the Russian soldier carried out his commander’s order—firing at least eight shots at the civilian with an assault rifle. The man died on the spot, and his body was later found in a mass grave.
Plyusnin is suspected of issuing an order in violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with the intentional killing of a civilian (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the intentional killing of a civilian in the context of an armed conflict constitutes a war crime. The criminal case was entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under No. 42022112320000037 on February 27, 2022.
This was reported by the project “The Book of Torturers of the Ukrainian People.”
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