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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets (including strikes on hospitals and on the energy grid); indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas (including with cluster bombs); abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 26 May 2024 (details): Continuously controlled by Ukraine Occupied by Russia Regained from Russia Date 24 February 2022 – present (2 years, 3 months and 3 days) Location Ukraine, Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list of engagements · territorial control · timeline of events) Belligerents Russia ...
Russian war crimes. Residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a Russian missile attack on 14 January 2023. Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide [1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been accused of committing ...
By Max Hunder. KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine has identified 511 people suspected of war crimes since Russia's Feb. 2022 invasion and has already handed down 81 convictions, its prosecutor general said ...
More. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ten months into Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine, overwhelming evidence shows the Kremlin’s troops have waged total war, with disregard for international laws ...
Moldovan President Maia Sandu called the event "crimes against humanity" and declared 4 April 2022 a day of national mourning in memory of all Ukrainians killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Amongst Ukraine and Russia's other neighbours, such condemnations were also expressed by political leaders in Finland, Lithuania, Poland, and Turkey.
Why there’s debate. Though there’s strong evidence that Russia’s actions in Ukraine fit the legal definition of war crimes, many international law experts say there’s ample reason to doubt ...
Olenivka prison massacre. On 29 July 2022, a Russian-operated prison in Molodizhne near Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was destroyed, killing 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war and leaving 75 wounded. [39] The prisoners were mainly soldiers from the Azovstal complex, the last Ukrainian stronghold in the siege of Mariupol.