Ukrainian prosecutors announced on Monday that 48 more Russian soldiers will be prosecuted for alleged war crimes in the conflict that has been going on for nearly three months. The information was released by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venicetova at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
“Suspects have been reported about 49 people we’ve started prosecuting for war crimes,” including Vadim Shishimarin, the first Russian soldier to be sentenced to life imprisonment today by a Kyiv court for killing an unarmed 62-year-old man. civilian.
According to Venicetova, Ukrainian authorities have a list of around 600 suspected war crimes suspects, and two cases involving three people are currently pending before the courts.
The Attorney General said he was investigating “more than 13,000” cases of war crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops since the start of Ukraine’s invasion of Moscow on February 24.
According to the Ukrainians, the violations of Russian troops, documented by Volodymyr Zelensky officials, amounted to “indescribable cruelty and deliberate violence against civilians.”
“This is particularly evident in areas at the forefront of the war that have been turned into a slaughterhouse,” says Venetiantova. .
source: Noticias
