Ukraine has evidence that this is a deliberate policy of the occupiers.
Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin
Russia has increased the number of executions over the past year. These are not isolated crimes, but a deliberate policy, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said in an interview with the Belgian newspaper La Libre, excerpts from which were cited by the Prosecutor General's Office.
The enemy also uses torture as a weapon of war, intimidation and destruction. Ukraine can prove that this is an organized activity.
“For example, we have an audio recording of a Russian officer ordering his troops not to take prisoners on the battlefield, but to kill Ukrainians,” he said.
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According to Andrei Kostin, one of the key tasks for justice is to hold the Russian leadership accountable for the crime of aggression, without which there would not have been more than 140,000 war crimes.
Most Russian war criminals were sentenced in absentia, but these decisions are important for the process of restoring justice, he believes. Ukraine documents all the crimes of the occupiers.
“Investigating war crimes during a conflict is, of course, extremely difficult. We document, investigate and prosecute in national courts every crime committed by the aggressor. But our task goes much further. We are introducing a methodology for prosecuting more specific crimes, such as sexual violence, crimes against children and environmental crimes,” Kostin explained.
- The Russians themselves are spreading reports of the execution of Ukrainian soldiers – in order to intimidate. In October, it became known that the enemy shot nine Ukrainians on the battlefield.