“I will chop off your fingers and hands” the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has released evidence of torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/15/7339775/
An endless stream of war crimes. It is time to hold Putin and the Russians accountable. Ukrainian girl, 16, raped and executed by Putin's troops among 400 corpses in Bucha The body of 16-year-old Karina Yershova was found in a backyard in Bucha - where the corpses of more than 400 slaughtered civillians were discovered after Russian troops abandoned the town https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukrainian-girl-16-raped-executed-26705908
Russians attempting to hide their war crimes... 13 Russian mobile crematoriums in Mariupol burn bodies of Ukrainians - intelligence https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/13/7339258/
Can someone explain how kidnapping children, dragging them to your country, placing them in an orphanage for adoption while they still have family members alive is not a war crime? Welcome to Putin's ethnic cleansing. Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage, a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl is recruited for Moscow’s information war https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/europe/ukrainian-girl-russian-orphanage-intl-cmd/index.html
Kidnapping people, dragging them to your country and placing them inside a former chemical weapons plant. This is the very definition of a war crime. How a fenced camp for Ukrainians was tracked down to a former chemical weapons dump deep within Russia As i revealed on Saturday, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, has warned that more than 400 people, including 147 children, are in a fenced camp near the city of Penza https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-russia-mariupol-refugees-camp-leonidovka-1579512?ito=smart-news
Can anyone explain how this is not both child abuse and a war crime by the Russians. How 12-Year-Old Orphan Was Unwittingly Sucked Into Russia's Ukraine Propaganda: 'She Is So Scared' Kira Obedinsky was reportedly taken to a Russian-controlled hospital after being injured by a landmine — now, it's unclear if she'll ever return home https://people.com/politics/the-orphan-unwittingly-sucked-into-russias-ukraine-propaganda/
Torturing and killing civilians -- More war crimes by the Russians. It is time to hold Putin and his supporters accountable. An abandoned Russian military camp in a forest near Kyiv reveals horrors of the invasion https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/europe/russian-military-camp-ukraine-intl/index.html Hostomel, Ukraine CNN — Dmitry Nekazakov was walking his dog before he went to work when the Russian shelling started on Hostomel, a city on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. The sky buzzed with low-flying helicopters from which Russian troops jumped, while rockets rained down. It was 6:40 am on February 24, the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and for almost a month, the bombardment there didn’t stop. Nekazakov said he spent 20 days sitting on the ground in his basement during the night. In the cold light of day, he and other residents in his neighborhood would emerge to witness the damage that had been inflicted on their homes, and devise plans to find safer places to shelter. “For a long time, the shells were coming – the rockets were coming,” he said. The Russian missiles and rockets that decimated buildings, lives and homes were fired from a sprawling Russian base, hidden in the forest some 4 kilometers (around 2.5 miles) away. Now, only the remains of that sprawling military camp sit among the trees. CNN was shown around the camp by Ukrainian special forces, who are picking up clues as to what Russia’s plans may have been for the capital among the debris. Earlier in the invasion, as Russian troops surged toward Kyiv, Ukrainian special forces believe 6,000 marines set up camp in this pine forest for a month, through the rain, snow, and temperatures that dropped to -12 degrees Celsius (around 10 degrees Fahrenheit). The site included a main command post and headquarters. It was from here and a nearby field that the Russian army launched attacks on Kyiv, Hostomel and the nearby city of Bucha. “Here they made a decision on the deployment of further actions, on the directions of the offensive, tactics of action, and so on,” a Ukrainian special forces officer told CNN, pointing to where each part of the operation was located. Huge grooves are visible where troops had fired grad missiles from a field, located forty kilometers (around 25 miles) from the capital. In the woods, discs from grad missiles that had been launched and ammunition cases litter the floor at launch positions. The Russian forces built dugouts, command posts, ammunition storage and communication lines using the trees and wood from the forest. They slept in underground fortifications, covered with timber and green wooden boxes that had once contained BM-21 grad multiple rocket launchers and tube artillery. Black wires connected each of the shelters across the forest for communication. The forest was also littered with food containers emblazoned with the branding of the Russian military: A special forces member uncovered a sodden notepad left behind, containing instructions from a previous mission in Azerbaijan. A Russian camouflage and concealment instruction manual was also discovered at the scene, along with clothing and shoes. Gesturing to the size of the camp, one officer told CNN, “Russians fight not in quality, but in quantity.” “They do not consider soldiers as people, for them they are cannon fodder and consumables. The tactics of the Russian army resemble, perhaps, the Middle Ages, when they took not by skill, but by quantity,” he added. Remnants of military equipment, clothing, and fortifications are not the only things the Russians left behind. Russian soldiers stormed into nearby neighborhoods, took over homes and terrorized residents who they came into contact with, according to local residents and a priest. The torture, humiliation and shallow graves of people killed by those at the base now haunt those villages. ‘I was beaten…but I am alive’ Vitaliy Chernysh, with his daughter in Zdvyzhivka. Vitaliy Chernysh, from the village of Zdvyzhivka on Kyiv’s outskirts, said he was cycling through his village when he was captured by Russian forces, who were “hunting for Nazis.” He said they held him for nearly 24 hours. Chernysh remembers praying in what he thought would be his last minutes alive. “[I was] blindfolded, hands tied and around me. They were shooting,” he told CNN. Chernysh said he was locked up in a shed after he had been forced to walk through a minefield. He said that Russian soldiers were mulling whether to douse him with gasoline and had threatened to take him to the crematorium. The soldiers shot all around his body as he was tied up, and constantly asked him what his last wish would be, he said. He sad he was left in the freezing shed for hours. “I was beaten on the arms and legs, below the waist. The bruises remain,” he said. I thought my leg was broken, I was limping. But I am alive and well, thank God.” In his garden, a rocket artillery still lies in his field – another daily reminder of his painful ordeal and the near month under Russian occupation and attack. Chernysh survived, but other residents were killed after being tortured by soldiers who spilled out of their forest fortress. A Smerch rocket tailfin is still in Chernysh's garden. Vasiliy Benca, a local priest in Zdvyzhivka, told CNN that Russian troops, tanks and armored cars converged on the village and remained there for a month. People were scared to emerge from their basements, he said. When Benca did, he said he found five men whose bodies had been mutilated in the garden – and two more in the forest. “Russians asked – or forced – me to bury two (additional) women in the cemetery,” Benca told CNN. Nekazakov, who fled when the Russians attacked his village, has now returned to his Hostomel home. He remembers all of the bodies he drove by when he left, he said, and regrets he couldn’t do anything about it. Now, he said, he feels hatred for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the soldiers who ravaged his hometown. “I feel only hate. We wouldn’t have thought in hundreds of years that this could happen,” he said, looking at the graves of those who died. “We cannot forgive it for the rest of our lives.” (More pictures and video at above url)
Can someone explain to me how kidnapping the citizens of another country, forcing them move to a remote island in eastern Russia in a harsh climate, using them as slave labor, and declaring them as future Russian citizens --- is not a war crime. Of course Putin's goal is "to erase the very idea of being a Ukrainian". When will Putin and his cronies be held accountable. Putin's secret island where Ukrainians are sent to work camps and can't leave Ukraine has claimed that Vladimir Putin has “forcibly transferred” over 500,000 of its citizens to Russia and issued them documents stating they are not allowed to leave for two years https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putins-secret-island-ukrainians-sent-26754678 Vladimir Putin has reportedly set up a secret remote island in the east corner of Russia where Ukrainians are sent to work camps and banned from leaving. According to Ukraine ’s Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya, more than 500,000 Ukrainians, including 121,000 children have been “forcibly transferred” to Russia. President Putin is also blocking Ukrainian's from leaving as he looks to strengthen his control over the war-torn country. When the Ukrainian's arrive, they are served documents preventing them from leaving for two years, DailyStar reports. Some Ukrainians have been sent to the remote industrial island of Sakhalin, which is well known for its unforgiving winters and constant rain, on Russia's far eastern territory and is practically inescapable for the Ukrainians. The industrial island Sakhalin has a population of just 127,000 with many locals working as fisherman and in the extensive energy production sector. Although the population is very small, the island is said to be proud of Russia's military history, owing to the World War Two roots of the island's occupation. The island was controlled by the Japanese, prior to 1945, and consequently many authentic Japanese buildings can be seen on the island, spread amongst the statues and plaques commemorating the Soviet reclamation. However, the island will be hard to live on for the Ukrainian's as it's one of Russia's coldest regions with the temperature not getting above 0C for most of Winter. It's been reported once Ukrainians arrive on the island, Putin intends to put the Ukrainian's to work camps and turn them into becoming Russian citizens. It comes just days after a pundit on Russian state TV caused outraged after admitting Vladimir Putin's goal is "to erase the very idea of being a Ukrainian ".