The AP article... AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike https://www.wral.com/ap-evidence-points-to-600-dead-in-mariupol-theater-airstrike/20264794/
I would like to see that in the big Victory Parade in Moscow on Monday. Most likely that would be an attention-getter.
A story with descriptions of more Russian war crimes... 'We tried not to watch' - escapees recount terror of Russian-occupied Izyum https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61354626
New day, new Russian war crimes... now drunk Russians are kidnapping female soccer referees. Drunk Russians kidnap Ukrainian referee near Kherson In Nova Kakhovka, near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a group of intoxicated Russians have abducted Ukrainian soccer referee Iryna Petrova, the Kherson city council said in a Facebook post on May 9. https://english.nv.ua/nation/soccer...an-soldiers-ukraine-latest-news-50241000.html
There will be many more... Russian soldier becomes the first to stand trial for war crimes in Ukraine https://www.rawstory.com/russian-soldier-to-stand-trial-for-war-crimes-ukraines-prosecutor-general/ Ukraine Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova announced the first war crimes prosecution of a Russian soldier since Vladimir Putin's February invasion. Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin, 21, is facing 10 to 15 years in prison if convicted. Ukraine’s intelligence agency, the S.B.U., found that Shysimarin shot a civilian according to a New York Times report. "On Feb. 28, four days into Russia’s invasion, Sergeant Shysimarin and four other servicemen stole a car at gunpoint while fleeing Ukrainian forces and drove into the village of Chupakhivka in the Sumy region, about 200 miles east of Kyiv. There they saw an unarmed 62-year-old resident biking on the roadside and talking on the phone," The Times reported. "Sergeant Shysimarin was ordered to kill the man so he would not report them. He fired a Kalashnikov rifle out of the car window at the man’s head and killed him on the spot, just a few dozen yards from his home," the newspaper explained. In addition to Ukraine, multiple international organizations are conducting investigations of war crimes.
A new day, new Russian war crime stories... 10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Says Russian Troops Burned His Mom Alive Andrei Bliznyuk had been trying to flee with his parents when he says Russian troops set their sights on them. https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-ukrainian-boy-says-russian-troops-burned-his-mom-alive
Video of Russian soldiers shooting civilians in the back... Ukraine conflict: Russian soldiers seen shooting dead unarmed civilians When Leonid Pliats and his boss were shot in the back by Russian soldiers, the killing was captured on CCTV cameras in clear and terrible detail. The footage, which was obtained by the BBC, is now being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors as a suspected war crime. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61425025 It was the height of the fighting around Kyiv and the main roads into the capital were a battlefield, including around the bicycle shop where Leonid worked as a security guard. But this was no firefight: the video clearly shows heavily armed Russian soldiers shooting the two unarmed Ukrainians and then looting the business. We have pieced together the full sequence of events, matching what was recorded on multiple CCTV cameras around the site with the testimony of people Leonid phoned that day, as well as the Ukrainian volunteer fighters who tried to rescue him. The Russians arrive in a stolen van daubed with the V sign used by Russian forces and the words Tank Spetsnaz in black paint. They wear Russian military uniform and approach with their guns up, fingers on the triggers. Leonid walks towards the soldiers with his hands up to show he's unarmed and no threat. The Russians initially talk to him and his boss through the fence. There is no audio on the footage but the men seem calm, they even smoke. Then the Ukrainians turn away and the soldiers start to leave. Suddenly they turn back, crouch then shoot the two men multiple times in their backs. One is killed outright but somehow Leonid manages to stagger to his feet. He even ties his belt around his thigh to slow the blood, then stumbles to his cabin where he begins to call for help. Vasyl Podlevskyi spoke to his friend twice that day, as he sat bleeding heavily. Leonid told him the soldiers claimed they don't kill civilians, then they shot him. "I said can you at least bandage yourself up? And he told me, Vasya, I barely crawled here. Everything hurts so much. I feel really bad," Vasyl remembers the call. "So I told him to hang in there and started phoning the territorial defence." The men he called used to sell air conditioning before the war. (More at above url)