Kochkarev Ilya Maksimovich

Kochkarev Ilya Maksimovich is a captain, commander of a launch battery of a missile division — military unit 74148 — 64th Special Purpose Anti-Missile Defense Missile Brigade of the 1st Special Purpose Air and Missile Defense Army of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.

According to open registry data, while serving as commander of a launch battery of the missile division of the 64th Special Purpose Anti-Missile Defense Missile Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, he directly led the combat crew, controlled the technical condition of launchers, and oversaw missile launch procedures.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that the individual is involved in the direct execution of criminal orders for missile strikes on densely populated cities, energy, and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.

These actions led to mass civilian casualties and large-scale destruction, constituting a component of the Russian Federation's aggressive war against Ukraine and simultaneously containing signs of violations of the laws and customs of war.

Furthermore, the individual did not exercise the right to refuse to execute a clearly criminal order, the obligation not to execute which is stipulated by norms of international law, thus becoming an accomplice to the crime.