Hega: Ukraine have identified several thousand suspected war crimes in the eastern Donbass region where Russian forces are suppressing their offensive, KyivChief Prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Industrial sector cases across Ukraine are about 15,000 since the Russian military invasion on February 24, said Prosecutor General Irina. venediktova Told.
“Of course, we started a few thousand cases about what we saw in the Donbass,” Venediktova told international counterparts at a news conference in The Hague.
“If we talk about war crimes, it is about possible transfer of people, we have started several cases about possible transfer of children, adults. Russian Federation,” He said.
“Then, of course, we can talk about torturing people, killing civilians, and destroying civilian infrastructure.”
Ukrainian officials did not have access to Russian-held areas of the Donbass, but were conducting evacuations and interviewing prisoners of war, Venediktova told a news conference at the headquarters of the European Union’s judicial agency Eurojust.
In total, Ukraine has identified 15,000 war crime cases since the Russian invasion, with 200 to 300 more coming every day, he said.
The prosecutor general said Ukraine had identified 600 suspects for the “anchor” crime of aggression, including “high-level top military, politicians and propaganda agents of the Russian Federation”.
About 80 suspects have been identified for alleged war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil, he said.
A Ukrainian court on Tuesday sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11-and-a-half years in prison for shelling civilian areas, while another sentenced to life in prison for killing a civilian earlier this month Went.
Three more European countries – Latvia, Estonia and Slovakia – meanwhile on Tuesday joined an international investigation team probing war crimes in Ukraine.
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court in Poland, Lithuania and The Hague are already part of the team.
ICC Prosecutor Karimi said: “Today is an important day that (the team) has three new members.” KHAN Said in a press conference with the Ukrainian prosecutor.
Khan said that the ICC is going to open a field office in Kyiv in the next few weeks to create a more permanent base for its investigation in Ukraine.
“We can’t fly in and out,” Khan said.
Earlier this month, the ICC sent the largest team of investigators in the court’s 20-year history to Ukraine to investigate suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ukraine’s Venediktova said she expected her country to handle “95 percent” of cases, but that some larger or more difficult cases could be dealt with by the ICC.
The discovery of hundreds of murders in places such as the Russian invasion and later the Kyiv suburb of Buka has prompted unprecedented international search efforts.
“Never in the history of armed conflict has the legal community responded with such determination,” said Eurojust President Ladislav Hamran Told.
Industrial sector cases across Ukraine are about 15,000 since the Russian military invasion on February 24, said Prosecutor General Irina. venediktova Told.
“Of course, we started a few thousand cases about what we saw in the Donbass,” Venediktova told international counterparts at a news conference in The Hague.
“If we talk about war crimes, it is about possible transfer of people, we have started several cases about possible transfer of children, adults. Russian Federation,” He said.
“Then, of course, we can talk about torturing people, killing civilians, and destroying civilian infrastructure.”
Ukrainian officials did not have access to Russian-held areas of the Donbass, but were conducting evacuations and interviewing prisoners of war, Venediktova told a news conference at the headquarters of the European Union’s judicial agency Eurojust.
In total, Ukraine has identified 15,000 war crime cases since the Russian invasion, with 200 to 300 more coming every day, he said.
The prosecutor general said Ukraine had identified 600 suspects for the “anchor” crime of aggression, including “high-level top military, politicians and propaganda agents of the Russian Federation”.
About 80 suspects have been identified for alleged war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil, he said.
A Ukrainian court on Tuesday sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11-and-a-half years in prison for shelling civilian areas, while another sentenced to life in prison for killing a civilian earlier this month Went.
Three more European countries – Latvia, Estonia and Slovakia – meanwhile on Tuesday joined an international investigation team probing war crimes in Ukraine.
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court in Poland, Lithuania and The Hague are already part of the team.
ICC Prosecutor Karimi said: “Today is an important day that (the team) has three new members.” KHAN Said in a press conference with the Ukrainian prosecutor.
Khan said that the ICC is going to open a field office in Kyiv in the next few weeks to create a more permanent base for its investigation in Ukraine.
“We can’t fly in and out,” Khan said.
Earlier this month, the ICC sent the largest team of investigators in the court’s 20-year history to Ukraine to investigate suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ukraine’s Venediktova said she expected her country to handle “95 percent” of cases, but that some larger or more difficult cases could be dealt with by the ICC.
The discovery of hundreds of murders in places such as the Russian invasion and later the Kyiv suburb of Buka has prompted unprecedented international search efforts.
“Never in the history of armed conflict has the legal community responded with such determination,” said Eurojust President Ladislav Hamran Told.