Ukraine says it has evidence of 109.000 Russian war crimes
Ukraine says it has evidence that the Russian Federation has committed around 109,000 crimes, including cyber attacks, since the start of the war. According to Kiev Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin, Ukrainian officials have identified more than 400 suspects in these crimes, reports Politico.
At the Halifax International Security Forum, where Russia's war on Ukraine was a dominant theme, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said it was Ukraine's commitment to document and prosecute "each individual incident".
As Ukraine struggles to make progress in its fight against Russia, Kyiv has been compiling evidence of war crimes since the full-scale invasion last year to present to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Prosecutor General said.
The vast majority of the charges being prosecuted were considered crimes against humanity, such as the mass executions of Ukrainians in Bucha in 2022.
Kostin’s figures also include 265 investigations into crimes against the environment, such as the Russian attack on the Ukrainian Nova Kakhovka Dam earlier this year that led to the evacuation of thousands of Ukrainians.
We specify that four cases so far have been opened into cyber war crime charges.
