Ukraine has filed eight new war crimes cases with the court, says the prosecutor
- Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova stated on Wednesday that Ukraine has filed eight more war crimes cases in court, in addition to the three sentences already handed down against Russian forces.
- She claimed on television that Ukrainian authorities have initiated more than 16,000 investigations into alleged war crimes committed during Russia’s incursion, which began on February 24.Moscow disputes charges that its forces committed war crimes in Ukraine as part of a “special operation” to demilitarise the country.
- Venediktova said there were 104 suspects, nine of whom were linked to crimes in a school basement in the village of Yahidne in the northeastern Chernihiv region, where Russian troops kept hundreds of people during their occupation from March 3-30.She claimed that ten individuals died as a result of the ordeal of being detained in the basement, including a young newborn and a 93-year-old.
Ukraine has filed eight more war crimes cases in court, in addition to the three sentences already handed down against Russian forces stated by Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova
She claimed on television that Ukrainian authorities have initiated more than 16,000 investigations into alleged war crimes committed during Russia’s incursion, which began on February 24.
Moscow disputes charges that its forces committed war crimes in Ukraine as part of a “special operation” to demilitarise the country.
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Venediktova said there were 104 suspects, nine of whom were linked to crimes in a school basement in the village of Yahidne in the northeastern Chernihiv region, where Russian troops kept hundreds of people during their occupation from March 3-30.
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She claimed that ten individuals died as a result of the ordeal of being detained in the basement, including a young newborn and a 93-year-old.
A total of 16 persons were dragged out of the basement and shot, according to Venediktova. She would not specify what proof she had and expressed disappointment that the nine accused were not present in Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, these people are not located here physically and we are going for an in-absentia trial, but it is very important for us, for Ukrainian justice, for the victims and their relatives to have this legal process,” she said.
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