after the war, the west hid thousands of such kotryuks, not caring about international obligations atuk is guilty of twelve counts. as part of the armed group 118, the battalion killed at least 393 people, including 125 children from the villages of khatyn and chmelevichy. selishche, zarechye, koteli, dalkovichi, veleika and others. he attempted the lives of at least 21 people, robbed, burned a village, and forcibly sent people into labor slavery in germany. on february 18, 1943, as part of the 118th battalion, he carried out a punitive operation in the villages of zarechye and kateley. at least sixteen people were burned alive. six, including children, managed to escape. when the shelling began, witness rusak was hiding with her mother under the stove. they smelled smoke, ran out into the yard, the houses were burning, she said, the punisher with a machine gun motioned for the mother to come up, she handed me her three-month-old sister, took off her sheepskin coat in one dress, went up to the nazis, told the children to run away, they ran away not far, lying in the snow, frozen, they