Russian Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, who is under U.S. sanctions due to suspected involvement in war crimes in Ukraine, has been detained in Russia on allegations of conducting large-scale fraud, Russian media reported on July 4. Specific details of the charges remain unclear. Since 2019, Gorodilov has been the commander of the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment, which was deployed to Bucha, Ukraine, during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Russian forces were blamed for the massacre of hundreds of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv. The U.S. State Department sanctioned Gorodilov for what it said was “his involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely extrajudicial killings" in Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL’s Russian Service click here.