Ukraine: 80,000 war crimes documented

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin assured on Wednesday that it was documented 80 thousand cases of war crimes and that they are growing exponentially after several cities under Russian rule have been liberated in recent months.

“To date, we have registered about 80,000 war crimes cases. Evidence of these crimes, however, is growing exponentially,” Kostin said, speaking before the US House Foreign Affairs Committee and explaining that evidence against 152 war criminals.

Kostin qualified as “genocidewhat is happening in Ukraine, as there are “obvious signs” of persecution of “Ukrainians as a national group”, with “special samples of genocide”.

Before the members of the lower house, the prosecutor pointed out that “joint responsibility“of the international community is to “do everything possible to expose the horrific crimes that Russia is committing in Ukraine”, although “exposing is not enough to ensure that this never happens again and to restore justice for the victims and survivors.”

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Kostin urged the United States not only to continue to support Ukraine militarily, but also to cooperate in strengthening the mechanisms so that “all those who organized and allowed the commission of crimes” were held accountable.

Thus, it would be necessary for the US to assist Ukraine in “various legislative initiatives”, such as condemning the illegal kidnapping of children from Ukraine to Russia (about 20,000).

Also notation Wagner Mercenary Group How foreign terrorist organization; allowing the Department of Justice to transfer the proceeds of seized assets to the State Department to help Ukraine or establish a special court to punish war crimes.

“We believe that the court should be based on the resolution of the UN General Assembly, which will authorize the Secretary General to negotiate the conclusion of an appropriate agreement between the UN and Ukraine,” Kostin said.

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Additional help for Ukraine

While the Republican Party has so far supported sending aid to Ukraine, hardliners oppose further aid to the country, while some voices in recent months have publicly demanded, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, not to be carte blanche.

However, in the committee, votes for further support for the country were in the majority.

“The free world cannot sit back and let this happen. It is time for this administration, along with our allies, to give Ukraine weapons are needed to winRepublican Congressman Michael McCall said.

As chairman of the foreign affairs committee, he opened the meeting by asking the Joe Biden government to report to Congress “on the United States’ response to war crimes committed in Ukraine.”

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In a tough tone and after several questions from congressmen, Kostin said that “no country can remain neutral in the face of such evil” and that “the free world should not tolerate genocide”.

“This is not just a war of Russia against Ukraine, it is global war. I don’t know of any country that hasn’t felt the consequences,” he said.

They testified in court. two survivors of the warincluding a 57-year-old woman whose city fell into Russian hands and spent a year trying to survive, but was arrested and tortured for days.

“I was detained for five days, beaten, forced to undress, cut my body with a knife and threatened to rape and kill. They even put a gun to my head and pretended to execute me and forced me to dig their own grave,” the woman said.

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After her release, she managed to get to the territory of Ukraine thanks to the help of friends, and later she joined the program. Association for Ukrainewhich offers a humanitarian visa to Ukrainians who have relatives in the country.

Another woman also spoke and told the story of Roman, a teenager who was sent to reeducation camp, where he was subjected to an intense brainwashing attempt with propaganda videos. He was supposed to be transferred to a new Russian family assigned to him, but he managed to escape.

A common practice that, according to the woman exposed, aims to “depriving children of their Ukrainian identity“.

According to Kostin, what these people described “is not an abnormality or an exception,” but “such behavior is typical of the Russian military-political doctrine and the “modes of action” of the Russian Armed Forces and their representatives.”

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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