Russian military soldiers shot dead an unarmed Ukrainian officer on April 6 in the dormitory for officers in the Crimean village of Novofedorivka, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.Meanwhile, an officer accompanying the gunshot victim is missing after witnesses said Russian military soldiers beat him and carried him away.

Oleksandr

Razmazin, the deputy chief of the principal command center of the armed forces

of Ukraine, says that Stanislav Karachevsky, the slain Ukrainian officer, was

returning home after military service with his friend, Captain Artem

Yermolenko, the beaten companion who remains missing.