WATCH LIVE: Attorney General Garland announces charges against four Russian soldiers accused of torturing an American in Ukraine https://t.co/q5MOKZyOSx https://t.co/pToh41ttUp

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 6, 2023

Prosecutors alleged Mkrtchyan and his soldiers abducted the unnamed victim from the village of Mylove in the Kherson Oblast region in southern Ukraine in April 2022. They beat him and illegally held him in custody for 10 days, according to the Justice Department.

Officials said some of the men either led or participated in interrogation sessions and tortured the victim, at times stripping him of his clothes, photographing him and beating him.

The Justice Department alleged Budnik threatened the victim with death and asked him for his last words. Nazar is accused of later conducting a mock execution of the victim. Charging documents said the unnamed victim had been living in Ukraine since 2021 and had not fought or participated in the war.

[Let’s hope they can find these four men and get them into the US for trial. I’d doubt it will happen without some sort of covert capture operation, however. — Ed]