The indictment, unsealed in Virginia, could be followed by other charges against Russians found to have committed atrocities on the largest scale in any European armed conflict since the Second World War, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in announcing the prosecution.
During the victim's roughly 10 days in captivity, the soldiers beat him brutally with their fists and the butts of their guns and threatened to sexually assault him. In one harrowing episode, according to prosecutors, they hauled him from the building where he was being held captive to stage a mock execution which ended when a bullet was fired inches from his temple as he knelt on the ground.
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