The State Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal proceedings regarding the official negligence of the leadership of the National Guard due to the fatal shooting in the Dnieper – on the territory of the Southern Machine-Building Plant.
According to the press service of the DBR, we are talking about Part 3 of Article 425 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (negligent attitude to military service, which entailed grave consequences, committed in a special period).
As the director of the GBR Alexey Sukhachev noted, the Bureau is now not only establishing the circumstances of the shooting in the Dnieper, but will also conduct a detailed investigation of the conditions that made the crime possible.
According to the GBR, officials of the Main Directorate of the National Guard “negligently treated military service” during the organization of the protection of important facilities and ensuring that military personnel serve on them. We are talking about critical infrastructure facilities, state facilities and state authorities.
The sanction of Part 3 of Article 425 of the Criminal Code provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a period of five to seven years.
As you know, on the night of January 27 in Dnipro, a 20-year-old conscript soldier of the National Guard Artemiy Ryabchuk shot a guard of NSU servicemen with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. After that, he fled the scene with weapons and ammunition.
The shooting in the Dnieper occurred at 03.40 on the territory of the Southern Machine-Building Plant.
As a result of the shooting, five people were killed (among them one civilian), and five others were injured.
Artemy Ryabchuk was detained six hours later in the Suburban Dnipropetrovsk region.
Upon the shooting in the Dnieper, the GBR opened criminal proceedings: the case is being investigated as premeditated murder (according to paragraphs 1 and 4 of Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
And Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky assured that the Interior Ministry will make personnel decisions after studying the circumstances that caused the shooting in the Dnieper.
