According to data from the kyiv body, more than 600 suspects have already been identified as politicians, soldiers and Kremlin propaganda agents
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Ukraine continues to search for evidence so that the Hague Tribunal opens war crimes proceedings against Russia
Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Office seeks any evidence, however insignificant it may seem, to try to get the Hague Tribunal to open war crimes proceedings against Russia, even if it takes time and hard work to document each case.
In a report on what is happening in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, the section on “crimes of aggression and war”, mostly for breaking “laws and customs” in armed conflicts, it collects 14,193 possible cases.
But the process to document them and end up reaching the International Criminal Court is long, while the war has lasted more than ninety days without the end of the conflict in sight.
< b>EVERY DETAIL COUNTS
Alexandr Iliyankov is responsible for the area that investigates possible war crimes in the Kharkiv District Prosecutor’s Office, the second largest city in Ukraine, with about two million inhabitants in its metropolitan area before the war.
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According to data from the Prosecutor’s Office, more than 600 suspects have already been identified, such as politicians, soldiers and Kremlin propaganda agents
Many were evacuated when the city suffered heavy attacks, which still continue occasionally, such as < b>one with missiles that caused at least seven deaths last Wednesday next to a metro station, although the war front has moved to surrounding villages.
In one of them, Koropy, from where explosions can be heard due to the fighting in the vicinity, this prosecutor directs the exhumation of the body of a young man who died from artillery fire when Russian troops entered.
Iliyankov told a group of journalists that thirteen similar cases have been located in this district, of which they have so far been able to recover seven bodies, with gunshots and artillery impacts that killed civilians.
Therefore, any pieces of shells, holes in a wall from shots, remains of burned Russian tanks or any possible evidence is recorded in photo and video before being taken away in sealed bags.
Just as any testimony is recorded, to record the smallest detail of what happened when these towns were occupied by Russian troops, he comments.
But they cannot enter a house where one of these crimes could have taken place if the owners are not there, since it is essential to leave a record before them the exact place, day and time of the prosecutors’ visit.
BURIED IN THE GARDEN FOR MORE THAN TWO MONTHS
And even with the owners, it’s not easy. Ketler Nadiya, the mother of a young man buried in the garden of her home in Koropy since April 21, opens the doors for them, but sometimes has to interrupt her story with tears.
The 51-year-old woman explained to EFEthat his son Ketler Oleksiy Oleksiyovich, 33, had left home with a brother to ask the Ukrainian military for help during a Russian attack, in which he received artillery hits that destroyed his body.
They could only bury him in the garden when the attack ended, but not in the cemetery, where he wants his remains to rest when the forensic experts have done the autopsy and the prosecutors authorize him to be buried again.
The mother preferred to leave the garden when the coffin was opened and it was a relative of the family who identified the body, shortly after a pair of Ukrainian military helicopters passed right over it at high speed on their way back from the war front area.
Everything is documented, with photos and video of each possible piece of evidence, as well as the testimonies of relatives and neighbors, to prepare a report that can reach The Hague .
ZELENSKY FEARS MORE CRIMES
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky recently denounced that there are more than three months of “war crimes by the Russian occupiers.”
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelesnky
“Many serious war crimes that Russia is still planning or has just provoked”, he stressed on social media.
Already Last March, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, said to have information on alleged war crimes in some “6,000 places” on Ukrainian territory, which, in addition to the country’s Prosecutor’s Office, are investigated by international organizations.
More than 600 suspects have already been identified, including politicians, Kremlin propaganda agents and Russian soldiers, according to data from the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office.
Spain was one of the countries that announced the sending of support teams to Ukraine to collaborate with the investigations, without offering many details for security reasons.
Some of the places where these crimes could have been committed, such as Koropy, are not entirely safe with the war front nearby a.
(With information from EFE)