The men were in Germany for medical rehabilitation after war injuries, Ukrainian media reported. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba instructed his diplomats to keep a close eye on the case and to maintain contact with the German authorities so that the suspect is punished according to the severity of the law. Kuleba thanked the German authorities for the arrest of the 57-year-old suspect, as the Internet portal “Ukrainskaya Pravda” reported. The Russian is said to have killed the two Ukrainians who were found with stab wounds on the premises of a shopping center on Saturday.
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It was still unclear whether there was a connection to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, which Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin started on February 24, 2022. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians live in Germany.
Men died from stab wounds
It is currently being clarified in which Ukrainian units the men served, according to media reports in Kiev. Contact with relatives will also be made. The men, aged 23 and 36, lived in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district. According to investigators, they died of stab wounds – the older of the two directly at the crime scene, the younger one a short time later in a hospital.
The investigating judge issued an arrest warrant for murder on Sunday. The police did not initially clarify whether the three men knew each other and whether there was a dispute in connection with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
