In German Bavaria, a 57-year-old Russian killed two Ukrainian servicemen, aged 36 and 23, with a knife.
Two Ukrainian citizens were killed in the small town of Murnau in Upper Bavaria on Saturday night. A few hours later, the suspect was taken into custody. He turned out to be a 57-year-old Russian. According to the preliminary version of the local police, a Russian citizen inflicted fatal wounds on the Ukrainians with a knife. What is known about the motive for the murder is more than the story.
Who was hurt?
The tragedy occurred near one of the local supermarkets. By the time rescuers arrived at the scene, one victim, a 36-year-old man, had already died. Another victim, a 23-year-old man, was resuscitated at the scene and taken to the clinic, but his serious injuries were not life-threatening.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Ukrainian soldiers who were in Germany for rehabilitation after injuries died. The local police district also confirmed that one of the men arrived in Germany in August and the other in December last year. Both received treatment for hand injuries at the Murnau Accident Hospital. Ukrainians lived in housing for refugees.
On the evening of April 29, the Air Assault Forces Command reported that one of the Ukrainian soldiers killed in Germany was a serviceman of the 122nd airmobile battalion of the 81st separate airmobile Slobozhana brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The name of the deceased has not been released for ethical reasons.
It is reported that in 2023 he was wounded in the battles for Belogorovka, after which he underwent treatment and rehabilitation in Germany.
Who was arrested?
The suspect turned out to be 57-year-old Russian citizen Yuri Zh., who has been living in Murnau for a long time. According to the police, he was taken into custody without protest. There is information that blood remains of dead Ukrainians were found in the suspect’s apartment.
The Russian is now in custody. According to local residents, the possible assailant is known to the police because of his aggressive behavior.
An investigative judge issued an arrest warrant after the man was charged at the request of the Munich prosecutor’s office, the police department of Southern Upper Bavaria announced on Sunday. A 57-year-old man was accused of double murder.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba thanked the German investigators for detaining the suspect.
What is the motive?
The background and motive of the crime are still unclear. For a long time, German police could not say whether the three men even knew each other.
According to preliminary information from law enforcement officials, the crime was caused by a fight between a Russian and Ukrainians. The suspect was drunk and confessed to his crime. It is still unclear what exactly caused the dispute.
On Sunday, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said they had received testimony that the victims and the attacker had been seen together before.
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The BR24 publication, citing one of the eyewitnesses, added that the suspect and the deceased were friends and that night they had apparently been drinking beer together.
According to Herrmann, so far there are no convincing signs that the direct motive for the killing was “a dispute over Russia’s war in Ukraine.”
At the same time, local residents who knew the dead told TSN correspondent Andrei Tsaplienko that they described a completely different story: the suspected Russian openly supported the Russian war in Ukraine, drank and attacked Ukrainians more than once – including in the same supermarket near where a murder took place, and also wears a patch with the symbol of Z. The Ukrainian military had serious injuries to their legs, so they could not fully defend themselves.
Not a profitable version
Tsaplienko’s information was confirmed by a number of German media. They noted that the authorities of the resort town of Murnau do not benefit from the version of killing Ukrainians because of the war of aggression of the Russian Federation.
Later, the head of the parliamentary group Free Voters, Florian Streibl, said: “If it turns out that the basis of the dispute is Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, which violates international law, it will be a disaster for region.”
“This conflict should never happen here in the Oberland,” Streibl said.
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And the spokesman of the German federal government, Steffen Gebestreit, in today’s briefing, commenting on the high-profile murder, noted that the incident is causing great concern to the local population.
“It is clear that we cannot tolerate anything like this in our territory who fled us from the war of aggression of Russia should feel safe here,” he stressed.
Regarding the motives and circumstances of the crime, Gebestreit urged not to draw conclusions until the investigation is completed. It is a fact that two Ukrainian citizens were killed by a “Russian-German criminal,” he added.
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