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Some 34,000 war crimes recorded in Ukraine – Prosecutor General Kostin
KYIV. Sept 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin reported about 34 ,000 war crimes recorded in Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion.
“We have fixed 34,000 war crimes in Ukraine. When we are talking about prioritization, of course, the cases, like we see today, and yesterday and days before, of war crimes committed in Kharkiv region, including Izium, of course, such cases are our priority. Nevertheless, we have a lot of cases, which are still ongoing, which started in places like Bucha, and Irpin. And all of them shelling and destroying of all of civil objects in Ukraine are also fixed, and then are also investigated,” Kostin said in an interview on the air of Face The Nation program on CBS on Sunday.
At the same time, he paid attention to “the horrible amount of potential war crimes committed by Russian aggressor.”
“What we see now is a system of Russian aggressor, what they do on the occupied territory. And it seems that for me that whenever Russian army comes, they turn this place into new Bucha, as we see in Izium,” the prosecutor general said.
Kostin also said that the Prosecutor General’s Office has more than 40 ongoing investigations into cases of sexual violence committed by the occupiers. “It’s important for us to communicate with people and to find out these cases in order for the victims of these cases to report about them. And for this reason, we also are in close contact with our colleagues in European countries where a lot of people who- Ukrainians who fled to Europe, some of them could be victims, or witnesses of sexual violence crimes,” he said.
The Prosecutor General noted that the Prosecutor General’s Office already has a case of genocide, and he is constantly in touch with the International Criminal Court and its prosecutor Karim Khan, because the ICC also has the authority to consider a case of genocide. “We understand that all of these facts put together will lead us to possible a conviction in Crime of Genocide,” Kostin said.
At the same time, he said that it is already known who is responsible for the crime of aggression, and “the crime of aggression is the mother of all of these crimes, of war crimes genocide, because without aggression, there will be no other war crimes.” “And for that reason for the crime of aggression, the highest politically and military leadership should be prosecuted and should be punished,” Kostin said.
