VORONEZH. July 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The trial of Captain Georgy Bykov, who is charged with murdering two warrant officers at the Baltimor military airfield in Voronezh, has started in the Voronezh garrison court, a source in the garrison military prosecutor's office told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
"In the course of the investigation that lasted for almost a year reliable evidence of Bykov's guilt was found and now the court will draw the line in this case," the source said.
The crime was committed on July 12, 2001. The captain killed Warrant Officers Nikolai Sitnikov and Vladimir Mashkov with an axe and stole from them a Makarov pistol with 16 cartridges.
"From the very beginning the investigators thought that Bykov might be involved in the crime for he had quarreled with the warrants over disobedience to rules shortly before that," a the source stressed. Bykov was detained and confessed several days later.
However Bykov rejected his earlier testimonies during the trial, saying that he had been forced to confess the crime that he never committed.