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Massacre in Bucha after the passage of Russian troops. (Archyde.com/Vladyslav Musiienko)
Solo in the kyiv region, including the country’s capitalUkrainian security agents have already documented and recorded more than 1,200 acts considered war crimes attributed to the Russians, Ukraine’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday, Denys Monastyrsky.
“In the kyiv region alone we have registered more than 1,200 cases of war crimes. It is about looting and crimes committed by orcs (as some Ukrainians call the Russians) in our territories,” the minister denounced on local television channels, the Ukrinform agency publishes.
Referring to the alleged crimes of the Russian troops registered in the territories already liberated by the Ukrainian army, Monastyrsky pointed out that “the investigators of the National Police, the Security Service and the Prosecutor’s Office are already working together to establish, record evidence and identify who might have committedor these crimes.”
Negotiated with the President of the Commission @vonderleyen. He informed about inhumane crimes committed by the aggressor in the suburbs of Kyiv. Agreed: all guilty must be punished! I appreciate the EU’s readiness to provide financial and technical support to the relevant Joint Investigation Team. #StopRussia
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) April 4, 2022
“All those (Russians) who have been taken as prisoners are identified and placed at the disposal of the Security Service of Ukraine and the military authorities for law enforcement,” he stressed.
Once this procedure is finished, “they will be transferred to the Ministry of Justice -he specified-, where will go to court and they can be questioned.
As previously announced by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine keeps 600 prisoners on its territory Russians captured since the invasion of their country by the Russian Army began on February 24,
“When we talk about the total number (of military prisoners), there are about 600 now. We have to build a special camp according to international law” to accommodate them, Vereshchuk said during the broadcast of the so-called telethon, a television program jointly broadcast by local stations.
Suspicions that the Russian Army has committed war crimes in Ukraine have increased after the discovery of hundreds of civilian bodies, some of them handcuffed and previously torturedin cities like Bucha, after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
The kyiv government, various NGOs and international institutions have called for an investigation to document these possible war crimes that Russia has denied and attributes to “a montage”.