Sweden calls Russian Amb. Over National Killed in
The Swedish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador for his comments on the death of a Swedish citizen in Ukraine, TASS reported on Monday.
“We can confirm that the Foreign Ministry called the ambassador, but we cannot comment on the details of the conversation,” the embassy says. said.
Viktor Tatarintsev claimed that Swedish media tried to promote the man’s image, according to reports. The 28-year-old citizen, who served in the Royal Air Force in Uppsala, had been killed near Kharkov.
The Russian embassy in Stockholm stated that the fact that he, as a foreign national, joined “the army that has been fighting civilians for eight years” makes him a “criminal under international law”.
Moscow warned that Swedish citizens remaining in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces “will very likely be brought to justice in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which will not hesitate to sentence all mercenaries to long prison terms or even the death penalty”.
A week ago, two Americans, a Canadian and a Swede were killed in Russian tank attacks in Donbas.
Ruslan Miroshnichenko, the commander in question, said the men were part of special forces of the territorial defense of Ukraine’s armed forces. He said: “the guys were instructed to take their firing positions” and clear a ravine where Russian forces were working to cross a river.
“They did it successfully. But at the end of the mission they were ambushed by Russian tanks,” Miroshnichenko is mentioned. “The first shell wounded Luke. Three guys, Edward, Emile, and Bryan, immediately tried to help Luke do first aid and evacuate him from this place. Then the second shell killed them all.”