Ukraine’s parliament registers draft bill to look into civilians’ murders

Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has registered a draft bill on setting up an interim investigative commission to look into the facts of mass homicide of civilians in the country’s south-east. This initiative was proposed by MPs Vadim Novinskiy from the Party of Regions’ parliamentary faction and Andriy Ivanchuk, deputy head of the Batkivshchyna party faction.
The draft bill stipulates that the relevant commission will be investigating crimes committed in Odessa, Mariupol and Karsnoarmiysk, as well as in other towns in Ukraine’s south and east.

Earlier, MP Nestor Shufrich representing the Party of Regions suggested to set up a commission for the investigation of murders of civilians in Ukraine’s south-east in his address from the rostrum.
“The deputies should gain insight into this, voting for setting up the commission immediately. Those guilty should be punished,” the parliamentary said. He added that the Party of Regions demanded “to stop all military actions in the county’s east except countering plunderers”.

“Civilians that come out to express their public stance should be calm and sure that servicemen would not shoot at them, and that no armored vehicles would be used against them,” he stressed.