Beltsev Dmitry Aleksandrovich

Beltsev Dmitrii Aleksandrovich — Colonel, commander of an artillery battalion — military unit 53195 — 236th Artillery Brigade of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. According to open registries, he is directly participating in Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.

He commands an artillery battalion of the 236th Artillery Brigade, allocated to the grouping of Russian troops in the Sumy and Kharkiv directions. The brigade's subordinate personnel are involved in shelling residential areas of Sumy and Kharkiv, which led to significant civilian casualties.

Colonel Beltsev, Dmitry Aleksandrovich, commanding an artillery battalion of the 236th Artillery Brigade, bears direct responsibility for the actions of his subordinate personnel. His battalion was deployed as part of the grouping of Russian forces in the Sumy and Kharkiv directions. Under his command, the brigade's units are implicated in the shelling of residential areas in the cities of Sumy and Kharkiv. These shellings resulted in significant civilian casualties, which qualifies as war crimes.