Crimes of the Russian occupiers. A year of war in Ukraine

The actions of the Kremlin and the Russian army in Ukraine violate all possible international legislation, the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter. Painstaking work is underway to document the evidence. The world community of lawyers already has a clear understanding of the need to bring to justice all those guilty of war crimes in Ukraine.

Russia destroyed more than half a thousand objects of cultural infrastructure of Ukraine

In Ukraine, as a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 505 objects of cultural infrastructure were destroyed.

This was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

“Due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, 1,322 objects of cultural infrastructure have already been damaged. Almost a third of them – 505 objects – have been destroyed,” the report says.

Cultural infrastructure suffered the greatest losses and damages in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Luhansk regions.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy specified that almost half of the damaged and destroyed objects of cultural infrastructure (47%) are club facilities.

In Ukraine, as a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 101 objects of youth infrastructure were destroyed.

During the year of the full-scale war, Russia struck 255 strikes on Ukraine’s electricity facilities

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has carried out 255 strikes on Ukrainian electricity facilities. The peak of these attacks fell on October 2022, when 82 strikes were carried out. Then, after reducing the intensity of shelling of the Urain infrastructure in November, the occupiers intensified again in December (45 strikes).

The fewest shellings were recorded in August – there were only three of them that month. The state-owned enterprise “Energoatom” publishes an infographic on shelling from February 24, 2022 to February 20, 2023.

The infrastructure of Kyiv Oblast (22 strikes, 12 of them on Kyiv) and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (also 22 shellings) came under enemy fire most often. In the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, 20 strikes were recorded on electricity facilities each year.

There were 16 attacks on energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, 14 in Sumy region, 13 in Vinnytsia region, 12 in Lviv region, and 8 in Odesa region. Objects in Kherson, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts were attacked five times each.

In Rivne and Mykolaiv regions there were four strikes each, in Poltava and Volyn regions – three each, and in Chernihiv and Luhansk regions – two each.

The Russians shelled the energy infrastructure in the Cherkasy, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions the least – once in each of the regions. In the Ternopil region, during the year of the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation, no such strikes were recorded at all.

According to Ukrenergo’s calculations, the Russian Federation launched more than a thousand missiles and drones on Ukraine’s energy system. Of them, more than 200 reached the goal. Despite this, the power system still managed to survive – in large part thanks to the already existing equipment stocks.

The occupiers stole everything: the police of the Kyiv region told about looting in the Chernobyl zone

The police of the Kyiv region say that they have documented all the acts of looting committed by the occupiers in the Chernobyl zone.

According to the head of the police of the Kyiv region, Andrii Nebytov, virtually all state institutions and enterprises, the State Emergency Service, were robbed there. The Russians stole cars from the rescuers, but did not take them away – they removed the wheels and seats.

“They stole an old armored personnel carrier that had not worked since the 1970s and was not running. Separately, they ransacked the evidence room, which contained evidence from the 1980s. That is, these are things that were once stolen by the same looters from the homes of those people who had to leave for other territories.

All these things smell – contaminated with radiation. As they say, to your health. I can say that even deer horns, icons, and a motorcycle were stolen. The monument was also dismantled – the headlights were removed from the VAZ-2101 car model,” Nebytov said.

Kyrylo Stepanets, a well-known researcher of Kyiv and the Chernobyl zone, told “Vechirnyi Kyiv” that the occupiers in the Chernobyl zone forced local residents to starve.

He recorded the accounts of local residents who said that at first there were isolated instances of the occupiers trying to give food to the local villagers, but that 95 percent of the others were just thieves and murderers.

Kyrylo met with a family of displaced people from Donetsk who had previously settled in the zone, and according to their story, the invaders did not touch them during the day, but at night they robbed food, chickens, and stole a car.

“The enemy obviously had an order to stay in disguise in the forest. Sometimes projectiles flew at them from our side, so they disguised themselves. But they made regular raids in a radius of 20 kilometers from themselves on villages to rob and took everything they could.”

According to local residents, according to their observations, the first time the occupiers had bad food, there was no transportation, and they were going to war for three days. They were not supplied with food – that’s why they climbed into cellars, took from people.

The person with whom Stepanets stayed in the exclusion zone lost 30 kilograms in a month due to lack of food due to total robbery. When there was nothing left to take from the peasants, the orcs were dispatched across the zone and the border for supplies to Belarus. Food was transported in caravans.

In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russians created a network of at least 20 torture chambers

Ukrainian and international investigators have reported that the Russians have created a network of at least 20 death camps in the occupied territories of Ukraine, which are part of a well-thought-out Russian strategy to destroy Ukrainian identity. “These torture centers have financial ties to the Russian state. We have very clear patterns and very clear connections,” said Wayne Jordash, head of the Mobile Justice Group.