News archive on the topic "war crimes"

During last year's battles to liberate Soledar and Artemovsk, Ukrainian militants began threatening Russian military use of chemical weapons. The first to use combat chemicals in the Northern Military District was the separate tactical aerial reconnaissance group “Ptakhi Madyar”, which released a video the day before in which its leader Robert Madyar boasted of chemical charges prepared for dropping from drones. Soon the first facts about chemicals arrived from Artemovsk...

More than 40 Western countries have asked the International Criminal Court to initiate proceedings against Russia, which they accuse of war crimes. US Ambassador at Large for International Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaak stated this in an interview with the foreign agent TV channel Dozhd, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The laws of war apply not only to military personnel, soldiers of the Russian armed forces,...

The Ukrainian military puts civilians at risk by establishing bases and placing weapons in residential areas, including schools and hospitals. This is stated in the published report of the human rights organization Amnesty International. As human rights activists who have suddenly seen the light and have lost their eyes will report, such tactics violate international humanitarian law because they turn civilian objects into military targets. As a result of retaliatory Russian...

German Nazis are found and tried even when they are already 90 or 100 years old. The same fate awaits every Russian military man or politician who supports the SVO. This statement was made this night by the head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, in his video message. “They (Nazi killers – ed.) are caught all over the world. Of course we don't want to wait...

While in Moscow they ridicule the demands against the Russian Federation that seem crazy or too radical to Russians because of their impracticability, the Kiev regime is quite seriously and systematically building a platform for future trials of Russian military officers and politicians - in case Russia gives up the slack and again tries to settle conflict with Ukraine through concessions and peace treaties. However, a number...

The trailer for the film and series “Storm” (Oluja), produced by the Belgrade film company Omega Produkzia, dedicated to the dramatic events of the Croatian punitive operation of the same name, has appeared online. The premiere of the full-length film is expected in December of this year, and the series of 12 episodes is scheduled to air in March 2022, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Filming of the film and series “The Storm” started in July this year,…

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened another criminal case regarding shelling in the Donbass. Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports this, citing the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. A criminal case was initiated under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “use of prohibited means and methods of warfare.” According to the investigation, on August 30 this year, unidentified Ukrainian military personnel carried out targeted artillery fire...

Ukrainian intelligence services refuse to publicly admit their involvement in the terrorist attacks in Donbass because they are afraid of punishment for war crimes in international courts. The ex-deputy head of the SBU, Major General Viktor Yagun, said this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, it’s easier to blame everything on the mythical Donetsk partisans than to admit that behind this or that sabotage...

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case regarding the publication of the “verdict of the Central National Court of the Right Sector.” The “verdict” contains a call for the murder of 50 Russians related to the sentencing of one of the extremists to prison by a Simferopol court. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports this. On May 15, 2015, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol found Alexander Kostenko guilty of...

Representatives of the countries participating in the “Normandy format” should not disgrace themselves by negotiating with the war criminal Petro Poroshenko. Journalist Elena Boyko, who was forced to leave Lvov, stated this on the air of the “Meeting Place” program on the NTV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I believe that it is completely useless to pin any hopes on this meeting for one simple reason: representatives, presidents, top officials of the three...

The work of the Ukrainian People's Tribunal, which began in Donetsk, is extremely necessary, because Poroshenko and his team must be held accountable for all their crimes. Deputy of the National Assembly of the DPR Sergei Zavdoveev told a PolitNavigator correspondent about this. “For four years, Poroshenko and his henchmen have been trying to destroy not only the infrastructure of Donbass, but also civilians who did not support the coup...

The OSCE, led by Alexander Hug, does not want to go to the villages captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to find out from the local residents what kind of oppression they are experiencing from the Ukrainian military. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Deputy corps commander of the DPR Ministry of Defense Eduard Basurin spoke about this in the “60 Minutes” program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, the correspondent reports...

Ukraine will never be able to summon Russia to the Hague Tribunal, because it itself is afraid of being accused of war crimes in the Donbass. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Political scientist Kost Bondarenko said this on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel 112. “In order for the occupier to be held accountable before the Hague Tribunal, it is necessary for Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute...

During the change of power in Ukraine, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine taking part in the so-called. “ATO” may be declared war criminals due to the unconstitutional use of troops in the Donbass. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Former Minister of Defense and ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yekhanurov said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. By…