News archive on the topic "war crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces"

On the night of January 23, the Ukrainian military fired at the Vasilievskaya pumping station of the first rise of the Yuzhnodonbass water pipeline, which supplies water to more than a million local residents. This was reported on the official website of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “As a result of the shelling, the station entrance, as well as the chlorination and battery buildings were damaged. Shift staff were forced to take refuge in a shelter.…

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened criminal cases on the facts of shelling of civilian infrastructure of the DPR and LPR, as well as on the murder of a 17-year-old girl and her mother in the village of Maryevka. Colonel of Justice Svetlana Petrenko announced this during a briefing, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the moment, three more facts of illegal activities of representatives of the armed forces and the National...

On the eve of the Orthodox holiday of the Intercession, the Ukrainian military fired at the territory of the LPR using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements. During this, as PolitNavigator previously reported, two civilian residents of the village of Maryevka were killed. “At 19.30, two civilians from the village of Maryevka were taken to the forensic bureau of the city of Stakhanov. The nature of the injuries is mine-explosive,” the doctor noted, adding that more detailed information will be available later...

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC RF) has established new facts of Ukrainian military personnel conducting artillery shelling of populated areas of the LDPR, as a result of which civilians were injured. This was reported on the official website of the RF IC. “On August 5, 2018, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine carried out targeted heavy artillery fire...

The UN report on war crimes committed by Ukrainian volunteer battalions in Ilovaisk in 2014 contains false information and was compiled under the control of the Russian FSB. Anatoly Vinogrodsky, the former second commander of the Donbass volunteer battalion, said this during a press conference dedicated to the UN report on the activities of the Ukrainian national battalions in the Donbass, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The battalion representative expressed outrage at the...

Those responsible for the tragic events of the summer of 2014 for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular the defeat in the Ilovaisk cauldron, will be named when the government changes in Kyiv. Political scientist Evgeniy Filindash stated this during a broadcast on the Newsone channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This government will never conduct an investigation or punish the perpetrators for one very simple reason: it is this government...

Former Ukrainian Air Force pilot Evgeniy Volkov went over to the side of the DPR, refusing to carry out the criminal orders of his leadership. The former soldier spoke about this in an interview with the Tsargrad channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He also said why he made this decision. “After aviation began to strike cities, Gorlovka, where my relatives were and are at that time,...

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened two more criminal cases based on crimes under Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of prohibited means and methods of warfare). This was reported on the official website of the RF IC. “According to the investigation, unidentified servicemen of the Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine, carrying out obviously criminal orders of higher officials...

If the Italian court recognizes the guilt of former ATO militant Vitaly Markiv in the death of Italian citizen Andrea Rocchelli in the Donbass, this will set an international precedent to declare the ATO illegal. In this case, the Russian Federation will be able to file an application with the Hague court to cancel the sanctions imposed on it for allegedly participating in the war in eastern Ukraine. About this at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada...

Over the past year, military prosecutors sent to the guardhouse and fined almost two thousand Ukrainian military personnel who organized drinking parties in their places of deployment. The chief military prosecutor of Ukraine, Anatoly Matios, said this on air on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, now, according to the new law changing the ATO format, inspections will be difficult. “Over the past year, only military prosecutors through...

Today in Lugansk, young people from several regions of the republic picketed the OSCE office. PolitNavigator was informed about this by the press service of the Patriotic Association of Donbass. The action was timed to coincide with the day Alexander Turchinov signed the decree on the beginning of the so-called “ATO”. As student Elizaveta Korshok said, four years ago she had to spend whole days in a shelter under incessant shelling and bombing...

Ukrainian soldiers beat civilians in Donbass to death at their checkpoints. Deputy Minister for “temporarily occupied territories” Georgy Tuka spoke about this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When I was working in the Lugansk region, a local farmer approached me with a request to help find his son. In 2014, his son disappeared in the Svatovsky district of the Lugansk region.…

The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his accomplices must bear personal responsibility for the crimes committed by Ukrainian volunteer troops in the Donbass. Prosecutor of the Ukrainian People's Tribunal Sergei Kozhemyakin told DAN journalists about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Petro Poroshenko, Alexander Turchynov, Arsen Avakov and others bear individual responsibility for war crimes, acts of genocide, crimes against humanity that they committed in Donbass...

The first two-day meeting of the Ukrainian military tribunal, called to convict those responsible for the genocide of the people of Donbass, took place in Donetsk, at which the first witnesses were heard. This is described in the story of the Union TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. One of the most difficult for the participants in the process was the story of a mother who lost her child as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “I hear my mother screaming...