Bezrukikh Dmitry Nikolaevich

Dmitry Nikolaevich Bezrukikh — Lieutenant General, Head of the Main Directorate (from September 2, 2020, to July 12, 2024) — Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Rostov Region.

According to open registries, the Head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Rostov Region, being a representative of authority and an official exercising general leadership over the units and institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Rostov Region, and being aware of the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, acted intentionally, in violation of the norms of the said Convention, pursuing the goal of inflicting physical and moral suffering on servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, by giving a criminal order to subordinate officials and internal service military personnel for systematic cruel treatment of prisoners of war, which manifested in inflicting bodily harm, injuries, and mutilations upon them, as well as humiliating their personal dignity.