Lithuanian prosecutors will investigate the death of Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, who was recently killed near Mariupol, along with other war crimes perpetrated in Ukraine.
“The death of Mantas Kvedaravičius will be investigated within the scope of the pre-trial investigation on war crimes and crimes against humanity, which has already been opened,” Elena Martinonienė, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, has told BNS.
Read more: Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius killed in Ukraine
The 15min.lt news website was the first to report the news.
Kvedaravičius, 45, was killed in Ukraine, near the besieged city of Mariupol, on Saturday, during an attack by Russian troops.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said in early March that it had opened a pre-trial investigation into crimes against humanity and war crimes following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Lithuanian police has said that Ukrainians or other people can report war crimes in Ukraine at report.epolicija.lt.
Kvedaravičius debuted as a filmmaker in 2011 with Barzakh, an award-winning documentary about war-torn Chechnya. In 2016, his documentary Mariupol was selected for the Berlin Film Festival.
In 2019, his first fiction film Parthenon was selected for the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week competition.
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