Russian special forces captain Eduard Ulman, who had been hiding from the court for 17 years after being accused of shooting civilians in Chechnya, was killed in the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the publication "New Buryatia".
In 2007, Ulman was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for the shooting of six Chechen civilians.
As the TV channel "Current Time" recalls, in 2002 Russian soldiers under Ulman's leadership shot six civilians on a country road in Chechnya: Zainap Dzhavatkhanova, a pregnant mother with many children, her nephew Magomed Musayev, 68-year-old village school director Said-Magomed Alaskhanov, head teacher Abdul-Vakhab Satabayev, forester Shakhban Bakhayev, and driver Khamzat Tuburov.
The soldiers opened fire on the civilian car by mistake. But later, when Ulman reported the incident to his superior, Major Alexei Perelevsky, the latter ordered him to shoot the survivors. Ulman twice questioned his superior about the order. The last time he turned the radio headphones so that his officers, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexander Kalagansky, could hear the order.
The shooting of civilians is a war crime under international law. The servicemen were twice acquitted by a jury, but as a result only one, Alexei Perelevsky, who ordered the shooting of civilians, received a real sentence. Three other special forces, including Eduard Ulman, did not appear at the trial. Perelevsky was sentenced to 9 years in a strict regime colony, Ulman - to 14 years. Their whereabouts have been unknown all these years.
The case against Ulman and his subordinates became one of the most high-profile cases during the second Chechen campaign.
