Gorodetskiy Anatoly Vasilevich

Gorodetsky Anatoliy Vasilyevich — Colonel, Deputy Head of Missile Troops and Artillery — Joint Group of Forces (Troops) of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

According to open registries, while serving as Deputy Head of Missile Troops and Artillery of the Joint Group of Forces (Troops) of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, he directly managed the staff, planned, coordinated, and led subordinate units of missile troops and artillery.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that this individual is involved in organizing, leading, and directly issuing a criminal order for the preparation and organization of a ballistic missile strike on the city of Sumy on April 13, 2025, on Palm Sunday.

As a result of this enemy strike, 35 people died, including two children, and 125 people, 22 of whom were minors, sustained injuries of varying severity.

Additionally, almost 100 civilian infrastructure objects were destroyed or damaged, including apartment buildings, educational institutions, shops, public transport, and architectural monuments of local significance, none of which are military targets.

These actions, directed against the civilian population, are an integral part of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and simultaneously contain 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 execute which is stipulated by international law, thereby becoming an accomplice to the crime.