By Max Hunder and Andrius Sytas

KYIV/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Ukraine has handed over a captured Russian soldier accused of torture and illegal detention to Lithuania for trial, in what Kyiv said was the first case of its kind involving the justice system of a third country during Russia’s nearly four-year-old war.

The soldier, described by Lithuania as a Russian marine, is suspected of working at a detention centre set up in Melitopol airport in 2022 in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, where one of the victims was a Lithuanian citizen, Lithuanian General Prosecutor Nida Grunskiene told reporters in Vilnius on Friday.

The suspect was arrested on the frontline in Ukraine in 2023 and was handed over on Wednesday to Lithuania, where he was detained by a court for three months and charged with

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