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The protracted war in Chechnya, especially many reports of extreme violence against civilians, ignited fear and contempt of Russia among other ethnic groups in the federation. One of the most notable war crimes committed by the Russian army is the Samashki massacre, in which it is estimated that up to 300 civilians died during the attack.
The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovered during its occupation of Ukraine in 1943. [3] The investigation of the site first conducted by the international Katyn ...
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська дивізія СС «Галичина», romanized: 14-ta hrenaderska dyviziia SS "Galychyna"), commonly referred to as the Galicia Division, was a World War II infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the ...
As part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian state and state-controlled media have spread disinformation in their information war against Ukraine. Ukrainian media and politicians have also been accused of using propaganda and deception, although such efforts have been described as more limited than the Russian disinformation campaign.
In 2010, Ukraine had a murder rate of 4.3 per 100,000 of population. [2] There were a total of 1,988 murders in Ukraine in 2010. [2] In 2017, 0.3% of Ukrainian crime was homicide. [3] In 2016 the Ukrainian police investigated 1,707 murders and, in 2017, 1,397. [3]
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.
Denisova was accused of "of making insensitive and unverifiable statements about alleged Russian sex crimes". The very name of "Denisova" was simply removed from the text (typed in Latin, while the spelling of Denisova's name in Cyrillic script, which is used in Ukraine, was left). But readers do not know the Cyrillic font and therefore are ...
David John Scheffer (born September 18, 1953, in Norman, Oklahoma) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, during President Bill Clinton 's second term in office. He is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law [1] at Northwestern University School of Law, where ...