Two Russian generals served with notice of suspicion for attack on Chernihiv Drama Theatre
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Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:49:10 +0300

Two Russian generals who ordered the Iskander missile strike on the Drama Theatre in Chernihiv on 19 August 2023, Mikhail Zusko and Alexander Dragovalovsky, have been served in absentia with a notice of suspicion by the Security Service of Ukraine SSU.
Source Ukrainska Pravda.Zhyttia Security Service of Ukraine Details The investigation established that upon receiving an order from his Russian superiors, Lieutenant General Mikhail Zusko, First Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces West Group, ordered Major General Alexander Dragovalovsky, Deputy Commander of Russias Missile Troops and Artillery, to strike the civilian facility in Chernihiv.
The Chernihiv Oblast Academic Music and Drama Theatre, named after Taras Shevchenko, was attacked by an IskanderM cruise missile launched from Kursk Oblast.
The attack killed seven residents of the city, including a sixyearold child.
More than 200 other people received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Residential buildings, administrative buildings and cars were damaged.
The law enforcers noted that Zusko received the order from Russian ColonelGeneral Yevgeny Nikiforov, who has previously been served with a notice of suspicion in absentia by the SSU.
Based on the evidence gathered, the SSU investigators served Zusko and Dragovalovsky with a notice of suspicion in absentia under Articles 28.1, 28.2 and 438.2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine violation of the laws and customs of war committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy.
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