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On 17 March 2023, following an investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian commissioner for children's rights, alleging responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation and transfer of children during the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1]
As of February 2022, Ukraine is not party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). [2] In 2014 and 2015, the government of Ukraine made two formal requests for the ICC to investigate any Russian war crimes and crimes against humanity that may have occurred in Ukraine in the 2014 Euromaidan protests and civil unrest, the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation ...
The Katyn massacre[ a ] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin 's order in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv ...
Russian war crimes. Residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a Russian missile attack on 14 January 2023. Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide [1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have committed or been accused of ...
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals, medical facilities and on the energy grid; [1] [2] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas; the abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence ...
Countries that so far officially recognise the Ukrainian genocide in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as an act of genocide (2022) On 23 March 2022, the Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution on the commission by Russia of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and violations of human rights on the territory of Ukraine.
As of 11 July 2022, Estonia, [6] Germany, [7] Latvia, Lithuania, [8] Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Romania [9] had all declared their intentions of starting universal jurisdiction investigations of war crimes of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.