Hacktivists in Ukraine claim to have identified the Russian who gave the order to bomb the drama theater in Mariupol, which resulted in up to 700 fatalities.
Colonel Sergey Atroshchenko, 41, a commander of the assault aviation regiment who was labeled a “war criminal,” was identified as the senior officer.
When the structure was struck on March 16 of last year, about 1,000 people—mostly women and children—were utilizing it as a shelter.
At least four people were killed, 16 were wounded, and at least one stillbirth are believed to have resulted from Atroshchenko’s jets bombing the Mariupol maternity facility.
After the colonel refused to cooperate with the hacktivist’s investigation, they released intimate pictures of him and his wife Liliya, 40.
The report said: ‘The hacktivists noticed that Lilya likes to send “photo surprises” to her husband.’
Believing she was communicating with her husband’s air force colleagues, she also agreed to pose with other wives at her husband’s air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, close to the Sea of Azov.
Ukrainian official Pyotr Andryushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, said: ‘The number one killer of Mariupol residents has been established.
‘The one who gave orders and controlled the bombing of the drama theatre, maternity hospital and the children’s hospital.’
The information was sent to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, in Netherlands, and intelligence community InformNapalm.
Russia denied it was responsible for the carnage at the Mariupol theatre, claiming it was blown up by Ukraine’s Azov Battalion.
But this has been refuted by several investigations.
The theatre strike was classed as a war crime by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Amnesty International.