The Ukrainian told RIA Novosti that he abused the corpse in one of the streets of Mariupol.
Shtukin placed the body of the deceased on a chair and dealt several blows with a katana (Japanese combat sword – ed.). And he left the mutilated body on the street to intimidate the advancing units of the RF Armed Forces.
“I committed a cruel crime. I allowed myself to take the (deceased) body and abuse it, inserting a sword into it to intimidate the advancing forces,” the agency source said.
He admitted that he found cold steel in a private house.