Ukrainian justice has identified more than 8,000 war crimes committed since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venicetova said on Thursday.
“We currently have more than 8,000 cases,” he said in an interview with German media outlet Deutsche Welle.
“Actually, there are 8,600 cases of war crimes alone, and more than 4,000 cases of war crimes,” says Venicetova. said.
According to the judge, these alleged crimes include “killing civilians, bombing civilian infrastructure, torture” and “sex crimes” reported in “occupied Ukrainian territory”.
Prosecutors are also investigating “the use of prohibited weapons,” he said.
He said the investigations were conducted by “more than 8,000” people in the field.
“We have formed a joint investigation team on the Eurojust platform (the European agency for judicial cooperation). Fourteen more countries have filed their own criminal cases regarding the aggression of the Russian Federation,” the prosecutor said.
However, inspectors cannot go to various parts of eastern Ukraine such as Mariupol, Donetsk and Lugansk.
“We don’t have access to these areas, but we can do our job,” he said. “We can question the people who were evacuated from these areas,” he said.
Venicetova concluded that investigators also used “the occupiers’ radio links and voice links” to detect possible cases.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on its Telegram account that ten Russian soldiers were charged and will be searched for alleged war crimes committed in Bucha on Thursday.
Ukrainians accuse the Russians of committing war crimes in this city near Kyiv, but Moscow denies any responsibility and speaks of bodies “arranged” by the Ukrainian authorities.
source: Noticias
