Il-76 case: Trial of General Nazarov underway in Pavlohrad

Victor Nazarov has arrived at the courthouse.

As reported by a Censor.NET correspondent, Nazarov is to face a verdict today, March 27. As of 11:26 a.m., Judge Nataliia Samotkan has not appeared in the courtroom. The hearing was to start at 11 a.m.

Nazarov's supporters arrived at the court but were banned from getting inside by the mothers of the victims, the correspondent said.

"I had parts of my son assembled for the burial. Get out of here!" one of the mothers said.

The military who support Nazarov are staying at the entrance to the courthouse.




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Dec. 17, 2015, the Pavlohrad city district court of the Dnipropetrovsk region started the trial in the case of Ukraine's Il-76 plane shot out of sky over Luhansk.

The only defendant, Major General Viktor Nazarov, was the commander the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) Staff at the moment of the tragedy. He is facing charges under part 3 article 425 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (habitual negligence in office during war, causing grave consequences).

The commission that has carried out a complex military-tactical criminalistic analysis concluded that Nazarov was the one directly obliged to take measures to suppress the air defense of terrorists and ensure a safe passage of Il-76 over enemy-controlled Luhansk on June 14, 2014.

The investigators have questioned 132 witnesses and conducted 112 examinations.