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Austrian suspected of war crimes in Ukraine detained in Poland

By REUTERS

APRIL 30, 2017 20:15

VIENNA - An Austrian man suspected of war crimes in the conflict between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was arrested in Poland on Sunday, Austrian prosecutors said.

The 25-year old is accused of "having killed soldiers involved in fighting at the Donetsk airport who had already surrendered and/or of having killed civilians", said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt in the northeastern province of Lower Austria.

Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, and fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine the following month between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government forces, a conflict in which close to 10,000 people have been killed.

The detained man supposedly fought on the Ukrainian side against the pro-Moscow separatists, the spokesman said, without providing more details.

He was arrested at a border crossing to Ukraine close to the Polish town of Dorohusk by Polish border police, the spokesman said, confirming earlier media reports.

A European arrest warrant was issued a few weeks ago, he said, adding that he did not know how long it would take to transfer the detained man to Austria.

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