Torture, rape and murder: 47,000 Russian war crimes recorded in Ukraine

During the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, law enforcement officers recorded 47,000 war crimes committed by the invaders.

This was reported by the press service of the National Police.

“During the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the police recorded 47,000 war crimes committed by the occupiers. Among them are torture, rape, murders of civilians,” the report says.

The police clarified that the work of law enforcement officers during the war became a component of the legal front to bring to justice Russian war criminals who neglected basic human rights declared by the civilized international community.

As reported, the National Police continues to develop the “Custody Records” system, which has become mandatory for implementation in all detention centers and police stations. This project has shown its effectiveness in ensuring human rights.

The invaders fired at the maternity ward in Kherson.

The occupiers are deliberately shelling civilian objects.

On February 10, Russian occupiers shelled a medical facility in liberated Kherson. At the same time, enemy shells hit the maternity ward of the hospital. This was announced by the deputy head of the President’s Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

Enemy shells hit the maternity ward of the hospital. The building is damaged. Medical workers, patients and children were not injured!

Currently, there is no more information about the Russian attack.

It should be noted that the air alert was not announced either in Kherson or in the region.

Let us add that the Russian occupiers shelled the territory of the Kherson region 51 times last day, December 9.

When the Russian military fled from Kherson and parts of the region, they detonated many objects. Demining of the territory is still ongoing.

The head of the Kherson demining department, Roman Rogatynskyi, told what is happening in the Kherson region and what the Russians were demining.

According to him, the priority task is the demining of critical infrastructure, power lines, water networks and gas pipelines, highways and settlements of the Kherson Region.

According to pyrotechnic calculations of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, 800 hectares of territory were demined in the Kherson region.

Of them, 200 km of roads, 20 km of power lines, a significant number of gas pipelines and water wells and networks, he said.

Roman Rogatynskyi said that 106 people are currently engaged in demining, and the management of the State Emergency Service is taking all measures to staff additional departments of pyrotechnicians, new cars are being purchased.

The Kherson region is agricultural and littered with a large number of cluster munitions, so special equipment that helps in demining would not be a problem. — The occupiers disregard all moral norms and rules of warfare, the Geneva Conventions.

They loot everything they can: apartments, houses, household items, thermos cups, furniture and even children’s toys and strollers, Rohatynskyi said.

The National Police assists in the inspection of apartments, basements and houses to detect mines.

He noted that, without an urgent need, one should not return to a place where active hostilities are still taking place. But if you still have to come, you should be very careful, do not visit forests, fields, exits to dirt roads, roadsides, do not ignore the instructions of sappers and police officers.

The occupiers continue to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine.

Russia was preparing the deportation of Ukrainians before the start of a full-scale invasion. Such conclusions were reached by the authors of the analytical report “Forced deportation of children to Russia”, prepared by the public association “Eastern Human Rights Group” and the Institute of Strategic Studies. According to the Russian documents presented in the report, before deportation, children are concentrated in the occupied territory, medical examinations are carried out, and then only healthy ones are taken to Russia.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has already illegally deported more than 13,000 children from the occupied territories. And these are only documented cases. Ukrainian officials admit that the data on deported children is not final.

“Every day new information appears in the mass media about the illegal deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, which is presented there as a noble act and the care of the Russians who accept our children. Every fact of illegal movement or deportation of children is recorded by the Office of the Ombudsman and law enforcement agencies,” emphasizes Dmytro Lubinets, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

First of all, the most vulnerable are at risk of deportation: pupils of orphanages and those whose parents died as a result of Russian aggression. For example, after the de-occupation of the right-bank part of the Kherson region, the Ukrainian authorities discovered that there were no children left in the region’s orphanages.

“There are no children left in any orphanage in Kherson. They were all taken away by the occupiers. And the fate of not only these children is unknown to us. The fate of the children taken out of the educational institutions of our city is also unknown,” said the head of the Kherson military administration, Galina Lugova.

In order to save the children from being taken to Russia, during the occupation, Kherson doctors falsified the stories of their illnesses, so they managed to keep them from being sent to orphanages.

“We were afraid to transfer them to an orphanage, we left all the abandoned ones with us. All those who were treated remained with us, we did not transfer any of them. And we did the right thing, because the orphanage was taken to Russia! And these abandoned children remained here. We tried in every possible way not to show them, to protect them,” said Olha Pylyarska, head of the resuscitation department of the Kherson Children’s Hospital.

Russians also kidnap children from supposedly dysfunctional families. Such, for example, can be considered parents who refused to send their child to a school controlled by the Russian occupiers.

“Yes, that was the case in Kherson. It happened in Kherson, in the occupied territories in the Luhansk region, it happened, I know, in Starobilsk. That is, if you don’t want to give your child up to be instilled with an ideology favorable to the Kremlin, you will be deprived of parental rights. They come and take the child and that’s it. There is such chaos now, such lawlessness is being committed that no one will even look for the missing child,” said human rights defender Pavlo Lysyanskyi.

Kidnapped children are taken to the Russian countryside – this is how the Kremlin tries to solve its demographic problems in desolate regions, human rights activists say.

Deportees are temporarily housed in so-called family education assistance centers. It is there that the de-Ukrainization of the child begins: they issue Russian citizenship to her and treat her with Kremlin propaganda.

“Each child they take away is a new citizen of the Russian Federation for them. Do you understand? And in this way, they increase, as they believe, the number of citizens of the Russian Federation, reduce the number of Ukrainians, and compensate for their losses at the front,” says Lysyanskyi.

The human rights defender emphasizes that the illegal deportation of children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia is part of the crimes of the genocide of the Ukrainian people. In the future, painstaking work awaits Ukraine. It will be necessary not only to prove guilt and bring the guilty to justice, but also to return tens of thousands of its citizens from the occupying country.

As the former commissioner of the President of Ukraine on children’s rights, the executive director of the “Save Ukraine” foundation, Mykola Kuleba, reported earlier, more than half a million Ukrainian children were stolen and forcibly deported to Russia, this is about 10% of the child population of Ukraine.

As many remain in the temporarily occupied territories. Also, 20% of young Ukrainians are now in other countries.

Shelling by the Russian Armed Forces led to the blackout of the Chornobayivska poultry farm, where more than 4 million birds lived before the war. Some of them were buried in a dug pit.

The Kherson prosecutor’s office has started an investigation into the mass killing of birds in Chornobayivka due to shelling by the Russian Armed Forces.

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office. It is known that in March, due to Russian strikes, a poultry farm with more than 4 million birds was left without electricity. Because of this, it became impossible to feed chickens and maintain a sanitary regime, which led to the mass extinction of animals.

“During the inspection of the territory of the poultry farm, the burial place of the dead bird was found – a pit with a depth of 3 meters and an area of ​​1,880 square meters,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The law enforcement officers also specified that they took samples for research, because there is a threat of bacterial contamination of a large area due to the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

It is known that the investigation is currently being conducted under Art. 441 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (ecocide).

Even at the beginning of March, the owner company spoke about the threat of mass extinction of birds due to starvation: shelling by the Russian Armed Forces led not only to the blackout of the poultry farm, but also to the impossibility of delivering compound feed to the animals. A separate problem then was to take out or dispose of already finished products.

In this regard, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy was forced to enter into a memorandum with the “Poultry Breeders’ Union of Ukraine” association aimed at stabilizing egg prices.