Russian Arrested In Germany For Allegedly Killing 2 Ukrainians

Flowers and candles are placed at an impromptu shrine in Murnau to two Ukrainians who were stabbed to death in the Bavarian city on April 27.

Police in Germany said on April 28 that they had arrested a 57-year-old Russian man on suspicion of stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers to death in a shopping center in the Bavarian city of Murnau a day earlier. The soldiers were said to be on rehabilitation in Germany when the incident took place. It is not clear if the alleged attacker and the victims knew each other. The two Ukrainians were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German region of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Their names were not released, in line with German law.