Overview
- Vilnius District Court on Oct. 30 ordered three months of pretrial custody after prosecutors filed war-crimes charges.
- Lithuanian authorities allege unlawful detention and torture of civilians and prisoners of war at a Melitopol airfield filtration site, including a Lithuanian victim.
- Investigators cite methods such as confinement in a metal safe, suffocation to unconsciousness, hanging by tied hands, dousing with cold water in freezing weather, and electric shocks.
- Ukrainian officials say the suspect, a senior sailor who served in Russian military police, was captured near Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia.
- Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko personally authorized the extradition, and the suspect faces 10–20 years or life imprisonment under Lithuanian law if convicted.