Demurchiev Roman Geradotovich

Roman Geradotovich Demurchiev is a Major General, Deputy Commander — military unit 89425 — of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

According to open registries, while serving as Deputy Commander of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Moscow Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, he exercised direct operational command over subordinate formations and military units, planning, organizing, and coordinating large-scale combat operations at the operational-tactical level.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that this individual is involved in the organization, leadership, and provision of criminal orders during the military invasion, coordination of combined arms operations, as well as artillery and air strikes on densely populated cities and civilian infrastructure objects that are not military targets.

These actions led to widespread destruction and mass casualties among the civilian population, constituting an integral part of the Russian Federation's aggressive war against Ukraine and simultaneously containing signs of violations of the laws and customs of war.

Furthermore, this individual did not exercise the right to refuse to carry out a clearly criminal order, the obligation not to fulfill which is stipulated by international law, thereby becoming an accomplice to the crime.