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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 ...
Emergence of the video. On July 28, 2022, a video was posted on a Russian Telegram page which showed a Russian soldier torturing and castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Throughout the video, the identity of the victim is unclear, however, the video is shot in high-quality footage and features extreme themes of violence throughout.
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.
Countries that so far officially recognise the Ukrainian genocide in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as an act of genocide (2022) On 23 March 2022, the Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution on the commission by Russia of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and violations of human rights on the territory of Ukraine.
The war crime captured on the video was determined to be a violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War signed by Russia, prisoners must be guaranteed humane conditions while in detention, and beheading is a war crime.
On 13 May 2022, Ukrainian authorities started their first war crimes trial involving the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, when Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin was indicted for killing an unarmed civilian in the Sumy Oblast. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The war crime captured on the video was determined to be a violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War signed by Russia, prisoners must be guaranteed humane conditions while in detention, and beheading is a war crime.
The Makiivka surrender incident happened during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in the village of Makiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Videos depict what appear to be at least ten Russian soldiers surrendering to four Ukrainian soldiers in Makiivka. [1] Russian soldiers exit an outhouse one by one and lay facedown on the ground. [1]