Russian Officer Convicted Of Murdering Chechen Civilians Killed In Ukraine

Eduard Ulman in 2006

Russian military intelligence officer Eduard Ulman, who was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for shooting to death six Chechen civilians in 2002, has been killed in the war in Ukraine. The Novaya Buryatia website quoted Ulman's mother and a former leader of a military veterans' group in Siberia on May 3 as saying the 50-year-old was killed fighting against Ukrainian forces. Ulman and two former subordinates have been on Russia's wanted list since 2007 after prosecutors asked a court to convict them of killing civilians during the second Russia-Chechen war and sentenced them to lengthy prison terms. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Caucasus.Realities, click here.