Russia has accused 92 members of Ukraine’s military high command of crimes against humanity, according to Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia’s Investigative Committee.
In total, Moscow has opened more than 1,300 criminal cases against Ukraine’s military and political leadership, Bastrykin said in an interview with government news website Rossiyskaya Gazeta published on Monday. He did not name any of the accused.
THE CNN has not independently verified the claims made by Bastrykin.
“In the course of the preliminary investigation, more than 220 people were identified as being involved in crimes against peace and security of humanity that have no statute of limitations, including representatives of the high command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as commanders of military units. who shot civilians,” Bastrykin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“A total of 92 commanders and their subordinates were charged and 96 people were placed on the wanted list, in particular 51 commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he said.
The head of the Investigation Committee also suggested the creation of a separate international tribunal for crimes in Ukraine.
“Given the position of the ‘collective west’, which openly sponsors Ukrainian nationalism and supports the Kiev regime, the creation of such a tribunal under the auspices of the UN in the current perspective is extremely dubious,” he said.
“The establishment of the court and its charter can be formalized by an agreement between Russia, the member countries of these organizations, the people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.”
Some background: Bastrykin’s allegations come as Ukraine is investigating more than 20,000 war crimes, according to former Ukrainian attorney general Iryna Venediktova.
Venediktova had previously said that Ukraine had identified more than 600 Russian war crimes suspects and had begun prosecuting around 80 of them. Two Russian soldiers have already been convicted under Ukrainian criminal law.
Earlier this month, prosecutors from Ukraine and the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in The Hague to share knowledge on investigating global war crimes and applying it to atrocities committed in Ukraine.
ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan called Ukraine a “crime scene” after visiting the Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Borodianka in April, where mass graves and murdered civilians were discovered after the Russian withdrawal.
Source: CNN Brasil

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