Kolesnik Maxim Gennadievich

Kolesnik Maksim Gennadievich is a captain-lieutenant, senior assistant — military unit 71707 — frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" of the 30th Division of Surface Ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.

According to open registry data, while serving as senior assistant to the commander of the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Armed Forces, he provided direct assistance to the commander in ship management, organized the daily and combat activities of the crew, and coordinated the work of the ship's combat units during the preparation and use of missile weaponry.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that the individual is involved in the organization, crew training, and direct provision of criminal orders for missile strikes with sea-based cruise missiles 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. S.

Nakhimov Naval Academy in Sevastopol, where he was conscripted on July 27, 2012, by the Haysyn RVC of Vinnytsia region, and submitted a report on transferring to military service in the Russian Black Sea Fleet on March 23, 2014.

While serving as senior assistant to the commander of the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich", Kolesnik Maksim Gennadievich provided direct assistance to the commander in ship management and coordination of combat units during the preparation and use of missile weaponry, which, presumably, led to missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.