While holding the position of chief of staff-first deputy commander of the joint group of forces in Ukraine, carried out direct operational management, planning, organizing, and directing of subordinate forces. There are reasonable grounds to believe that the person is involved in organizing, directing, and directly giving the criminal order to prepare and carry out a fire strike with ballistic weapons 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, of which 22 were minors, suffered injuries of varying severity. Also, nearly 100 objects of civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged, including apartment buildings, educational institutions, shops, public transport, and architectural monuments of local significance, which are not military targets.

These actions, directed against the civilian population, are a component of the aggressive war of russia against Ukraine, and at the same time contain signs of a violation of the laws and customs of war. Along with this, the person did not use the right to refuse to execute a clearly criminal order, the obligation of non-execution of which is provided by the norms of international law, thus becoming an accomplice to the crime.