Putin wanted to do to Ukraine exactly what Stalin did to Ukraine in the 1930s. Putin could face new war crime case as evidence suggests starvation of Ukraine was pre-planned Purchases by Russian defence contractor suggest Moscow was planning to steal vast quantities of Ukrainian grain months before troops ever crossed the border https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ain-theft-ukraine-russia-latest-b2447644.html
EBU investigation uncovers aggressive 'Russification' in occupied Ukraine The European Broadcasting Union Investigative Journalism Network says Moscow has been systematically eradicating Ukrainian identity in illegally annexed eastern territories. Its report said ''breaking or ignoring Russia's rules can make it hard to survive''. https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/16...-aggressive-russification-in-occupied-ukraine
More and more Russian war crimes. Every day brings new revelations. I survived three days of torture at hands of Russian soldiers: They electrocuted my genitals for four hours and put me in a 'glass room' so everyone could watch me screaming https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ls-four-hours-glass-room-watch-screaming.html
At some point in the future there will be no safe place for these Russian war criminals to hide on the face of the earth. Sexually assaulted by Russian troops, survivors in Ukraine begin to seek justice https://ghostarchive.org/archive/wwGk0
Ukraine has been a sovereign nation recognized by the U.N. for over 30 years. The Ukraine charter was recognized by Russia as well as many later international documents such as the Budapest Memorandum which recognized Ukraine as a sovereign nation. The talking point by vatniks claiming Ukraine is not a sovereign nation is really quite laughable and flies in the face of the facts -- including the many times Russia signed documents recognizing Ukraine as a sovereign nation.
Ethnic cleansing... Door-to-door terror in occupied Ukraine as Russia about to classify Ukrainians as ‘foreigners’, likely rob and deport them Russia is using armed Russian soldiers, threats of deportation and pressure on employers before claiming from 1 January 2024 that it is Ukrainians, nor the aggressor state, that are ‘foreign nationals’ on Ukrainian territory https://khpg.org/en/1608813188
Russia had kidnapped huge numbers of Ukrainian children and civilians. It is all part of Putin's ethnic cleansing. Ukraine demands OSCE action on Russia's 'abduction' of thousands of Ukrainian kids https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-demands-osce-action-russias-093500619.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with Maltese Foreign Minister and current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ian Borg on Feb. 2 and called on the organization to address the issue of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. "I urged the OSCE to take additional steps immediately to use all available opportunities to address the issue of abducted Ukrainian children and civilian hostages," Kuleba said. Special attention was paid to Russia's criminal practice of abducting children, as well as the protection of civilian hostages and forced passportization. The talks with the Maltese Foreign Minister concerned "expanding the OSCE's documentation of Russian crimes in Ukraine, including war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine." The Ukrainian diplomat suggested that the OSCE should also address the rights of national minorities in Russia. Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly arrived in Kyiv and announced the creation of a coalition to return deported Ukrainian children on Feb. 2. Abduction of Ukrainian children — what is known The International Criminal Court in the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova in March 2023. They are suspected of committing war crimes — namely the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on April 27, 2023, recognizing the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia as genocide. PACE created a special committee on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children by the Russians on Nov. 27, 2023. Using third countries, Ukraine managed to return 387 children out of almost 20,000 abducted by Russia, First Lady Olena Zelenska announced on Dec. 9, 2023. Ukraine returned 517 illegally deported children and 2,828 adults from Russia, including 150 civilians, Dmytro Lubinets announced at a Peace Formula meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 14, 2024. PACE unanimously adopted the resolution on the Status of Children of Ukraine on Jan. 25, 2024. The resolution calls on EU member states to recognize the deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia as genocide of the Ukrainian people. As of Jan. 6, 2024, 19,546 children were deported or forcibly relocated to Russia, Ukraine’s Children of War platform announced.
UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a ‘military agenda’ in schools https://apnews.com/article/russia-c...deportations-9bf8c7c698fbdebe4151caa865f73960 A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights called Thursday on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda,” including over the war in Ukraine. The Committee on the Rights of the Child held two days of hearings in Geneva last month before presenting its findings on conditions in Russia. The examination was part of a regular review that all U.N. member countries receive. Bragi Gudbrandsson, the committee’s vice chair, said that the panel highlighted the killings and injuries of hundreds of children through “indiscriminate attacks” by Russia in Ukraine by using explosive weapons. He cited measures to strip deported Ukrainian children of their nationality and give them Russian citizenship. The Ukrainian government and “other sources” indicated that about 20,000 Ukrainian children had been forcibly deported, though it was difficult to determine exact numbers, he said. “Russia denied this,” he added. “It is our conclusion that there are (is) evidence of forced transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia,” said Gudbrandsson, a former director-general of Iceland’s child protection agency. Russian officials attended the committee’s Jan. 22-23 hearings. The Russian diplomatic mission in Geneva didn’t immediately respond to a request from The Associated Press seeking comment, but said that a response would come from Moscow. The 18-member committee of independent experts last examined Russia’s record on children’s rights a decade ago. It also urged the Russian government to investigate war crime allegations against President Vladimir Putin’s commissioner for children’s rights. In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his children’s rights commissioner, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine. The U.N. committee, in its concluding observations, said it was “deeply concerned” about the allegations of Lvova-Belova’s responsibility and urged Russian authorities to “investigate allegations of war crimes perpetrated” by her. It didn’t mention the allegations against Putin. The Russian government has faced international condemnation over deportations of Ukrainian families, including children, to Russia following Putin’s order for Russian troops to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. It also has come under recent scrutiny over the alleged interference by Putin’s ruling party in schools and policies that put a positive spin on Russia’s war effort. The Russian delegation headed by Alexey Vovchenko, a deputy minister of labor and social protection, denied during last month’s hearings that any Ukrainians were forcibly removed from their country. He said that 4.8 million residents of Ukraine — including 770,000 children — had been taken in by Russia. The committee also denounced the alleged “widespread and systematic state propaganda in schools about the war in Ukraine,” including through the issuance of a new history textbook and a new training manual for teaching the government’s positions on the conflict. The U.N. panel called on authorities to “prevent any attempts to rewrite school curriculum and textbooks to reflect the political and military agenda of the government.” Ann Skelton, the committee chair, said that it put an emphasis on the “politicization and militarization of schools,” adding: “We consider it to be a very big risk for the future of these children ... who are being indoctrinated basically.” The committee also expressed concerns about sexual and other violence committed by Russian soldiers against children in Ukraine. The U.N. last year added Russia to a blacklist of countries that violate children’s rights in conflict, citing boys and girls who were killed during attacks on schools and hospitals in Ukraine. Children’s rights in Bulgaria, Congo, Lithuania, Senegal and South Africa were also considered by the committee during its January hearings.