Cherdantsev Vyacheslav Nikolaevich

Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Cherdantsev is an employee of Branch "Medical Unit No. 7" of the Federal State Healthcare Institution Medical and Sanitary Unit No. 33 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation. According to open registries, while serving as an employee of Branch "Medical Unit No.

7" of the Federal State Healthcare Institution Medical and Sanitary Unit No. 33 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, he provided medical support to detainees, rendered them medical assistance, and controlled the sanitary and epidemiological condition of the institution.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that the individual is involved in the direct execution of criminal orders for repressive actions by units of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, which carry out the illegal detention and terror of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians; specifically, he is officially suspected of committing a criminal offense under Part 1, Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, because, acting in prior conspiracy with a group of persons in Correctional Colony No.

7, he committed cruel treatment in the form of torture against Ukrainian prisoners, which manifested as systematic physical, psychological, and sexual violence, mockery of human dignity, rape with a foreign object, intentional spread of scabies without providing treatment, and the creation of inhumane conditions of detention.

Such actions grossly violate the norms of international humanitarian law, qualifying as war crimes. Furthermore, the individual did not exercise the right to refuse to carry out a clearly criminal order, the obligation not to fulfill which is stipulated by norms of international law, thereby becoming an accomplice to the crime.