Section: War crimes
Russian troops shelled Kharkiv destroying civilian infrastructure: 10 people are injured
Russian occupiers targeted the residential area of Kharkiv (east of Ukraine) on September 9, 2022. Private houses are hit, and the kindergarten is on fire. As a result, there are ten wounded, including children. Source The Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov “Heavy shelling of Kharkiv from multiple launch rocket systems. So far, it is known...
Russian troops hit civilian objects in the east, people are under rubble: photos
According to data from the National Police of Ukraine on September 7, 2022, Russian occupiers continue to destroy the civilian population. During the day, 17 shellings were recorded in the Donetsk region (east of Ukraine), resulting in deaths and injuries. Source: National Police of Ukraine The Russian army struck the cities of Avdiivka, Bakhmut,...
Dutch forensic team will make 3 more visits to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine
The Dutch Ministry of Defense said on August 29, 2022, that criminal investigators from the Netherlands would make three more visits to Ukraine to assist the International Criminal Court’s investigation into war crimes during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Source: The Dutch Ministry of Defense A group of investigators will visit...
Russian-occupied Mariupol exceeded Hiroshima and Nagasaki in terms of victims
Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol said on August 16, 2022, that it is currently impossible to say how many Ukrainians Russia killed in occupied Mariupol (east of Ukraine). But in terms of the number of victims, the Ukrainian city exceeded Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which about 50,000 people died. Source: Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro...
The Russian army hit more than 22,000 civilian objects in Ukraine since February 24
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yevgen Yenin reported on August 14, 2022, that Russian troops attack the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine much more often than military facilities. The Russian army has hit more than twenty-two thousand civilian objects and about three hundred military ones since the beginning of the full-scale...
Ukraine is investigating 26,000 war crimes committed by Russia, – Prosecutor General’s Office
Head of the War Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine said on August 7, 2022, that Ukraine was investigating nearly 26,000 Russian war crimes cases since Russia’s February 24 invasion and had charged 135 individuals. Source: Head of the War Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, Yuriy...
Russians have killed more than 1,000 civilians, including 50 children in the Kharkiv region
Oleksandr Filchakov, head of the regional prosecutor’s office confirmed on August 7 that Russia had already killed over one thousand civilians and 50 children in the Kharkiv region (east of Ukraine) since the beginning of the war. Source: Oleksandr Filchakov, head of the regional prosecutor’s office According to the prosecutor’s office,...
Russian troops use the civilian population as a human shield in the south of Ukraine
The Ukrainian army launched a counteroffensive on the territory of the Kherson region (south of Ukraine). Due to this, the flow of refugees has increased significantly, but the occupiers do not let the civilian population pass. They want to use civilians as a human shield. Source: Serhiy Kaliman, head of the Vasylivka United Territorial Community...
5,327 civilians have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the large-scale war, – UN
At least 5,327 civilians were killed in Ukraine, and another 7,257 were injured from February 24 to July 31 according to UN data. Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “A total of 5,327 killed (2,056 men, 1,400 women, 146 girls, and 165 boys, as well as 41 children and 1,519 adults whose sex is yet unknown). A total of...
Russian troops wear civilian clothes and flee the battlefield in the south of Ukraine
Russian forces are going into locals’ houses and changing into civilian clothes to escape from the front, where active hostilities are currently taking place in the Kherson region (south of Ukraine). Source: The Acting head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Dmytro Butriy As Butriy writes, the Russian military is trying to find a way to...
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General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 18:55 (EEST)
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