The prosecutor’s office of Ukraine is ready to start trials for war crimes of Russiaas revealed by the country’s Attorney General.
«Three Russian prisoners of war accused of killing civilians and a soldier who allegedly killed a man before raping his wife are set to be charged in the first war crimes trial against Ukraine.“, He revealed.
More than 10,700 crimes have been recorded since the start of the war from the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, headed by Iryna Venediktova, and some cases have now been filed or are ready to be filed two months after the war.
Vadim Shysimarin, a 21-year-old commander of the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, who is currently in custody in Ukraine, is expected to be the first to be tried for the murder of a 68-year-old man.
Shysimarin was allegedly fighting in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine when he killed a civilian on February 18 in the village of Chupakhivka. He is accused of driving a stolen car with four other soldiers as he tried to escape from Ukrainian fighters and then shot and killed the unarmed man on a bicycle while talking on his phone. According to prosecutors, he was ordered “to kill a citizen so as not to report him to the Ukrainian defenders.”
The crime is said to have occurred near the victim’s home and was committed using an AK-74. The case was filed in criminal court this week. «He is here, we have him“, Said the Benedictinespeaking from its headquarters in Kyiv.
A spokesman added: “Prosecutors and investigators of the SBU (Ukrainian secret services) have gathered enough evidence for his involvement in violating the laws and practices of war in conjunction with premeditated murder. For these actions, he faces sentence of 10 to 15 years or life imprisonment».
At the same time, on February 24, the day the “special military operation»Του Vladimir Putin, Two Russian soldiers reportedly used a Soviet 122mm multi-launcher truck bombing of houses and buildings in the village of Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv region. They also allegedly hit a “educational institution»In the city of Dergachiv, from Belgorod, Russia.
The soldiers later crossed the border into Ukraine and continued to bomb targets in Kharkovas claimed, but were captured by Ukrainian forces and are now awaiting trial. Their case file, which alleges breaches of the laws and practices of war, also has filed in a criminal court in Ukrainebut names and photos have not yet been published.
In a recent case that probably goes to trial in absentia, a soldier named Mikhail Romanov, who has a large tattoo of a bear on his chest, is accused of breaking into a house in March in a village in the Brovarsky district killing a man and then repeatedly raping the woman of while “threatened her and her minor child with violence and weapons». A second soldier also raped the 33-year-old, who has a four-year-old son.
The case has not yet been filed in court, but the prosecutor’s office was able to provide a photo from social media used by the victim to identify the man who allegedly attacked her.
For Romanov, Venediktova said: “Now we do not know where he is – maybe he is still fighting, maybe he is rotating in the Russian Federation, maybe he is dead. We do not know, but we want to judge him in absentia». He added: “We want to show these criminals that we will find them. And we will prevent other people from dying in other areas».
Venediktova, who traveled to Poland on Monday to meet with UK Attorney General Suela Braverman, who provided her with advice from a former International Criminal Court judge, said that 36 recognized war crimes suspects are currently being prosecuted.
Venediktova, whose office has 12 telephone lines, including one to Volodymyr Zelensky, said she feared many more crimes would arise from the territories in eastern and southern Ukraine currently occupied by Russia, including the devastated city. of Mariupol.
Benedict stressed that countless atrocities were committed.
“I have a theory that the Russian Federation decided that when they came to Ukraine everyone would be happy to see them, but when they realized that the whole population was fighting against them, against a common enemy, they decided to do everything to scare the population,” he said. .
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