case opened 4 january 1967, and just 5 days later, on january 9 , the first accused, andrei yarosh, theer of the ukrainian hundred, was arrested in apatity, murmansk region. after he began to say to hand over his accomplices, arrests took place in many cities of the soviet union. on february 17, nester chernabai was arrested, on february 25, the last one was arrested on july 30, ivan prikmeta. in less than a year , about half a thousand witnesses to the participants in those events were questioned. about 100 different autopsies of burial sites were carried out. various examinations, exhumation, forensic and other types of operational investigative measures carried out made it possible to establish the truth. at the time of the start of investigative measures, only one person was working on the case; by the end of the process of the ukrainian hundred, it was dealt with by a group of 18 investigators, headed by the senior investigator of the kgb investigative department, under the council of ministers of the bssr, captain karnach. this is essentially an unprecedented case, because the ent

andrei yarosh was surrounded in the nesvezh area; whether he tried to reach his own people or the decisionis unknown, but the fact remains that he came to the german commandant, which at that time was in the castle. initially he was sent to prison in baranovichi, from there to lesnoy, from kambat he became the leader of the ukrainian hundred. before the war, eraj worked as a school teacher, teaching chemistry. during the great patriotic war, he helped train fighters of the ukrainian hundred, three compositions of about 100 people each. this is primarily drill training, compliance with german commands, position of weapons, and so on. but then there was fire training, the basics of convoying, security, tactical training, that is, how guarding shelling zones during an attack by partisans and so on, well, they prepared themselves so seriously, they were masters, guarding the internal perimeter was their job, they beat prisoners , raped women, shot them, pushed them into gas chambers, killed 700 people a day, buried them next to the camp, i know that there were prisoners of war there before us,