Moscow: Moscow had charged 92 Ukrainian military personnel with crimes against humanity and proposed an international tribunal backed by Bolivia, Iran and Syria, the head of Russia's investigative committee said.
On Monday, the government's Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted the head of the committee, Alexander Bastrykin, as "accusing more than 220 persons, including representatives of the high command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as commanders of military units, of shelling the civilian population."
He accused Ukrainians of "crimes against the peace and security of humanity, which have no boundaries".
Bastrykin, whose committee investigates major crimes, said 92 commanders and their subordinates were indicted, and 96 people, including 51 armed forces commanders, were declared wanted.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the allegations made by the committee. Ukrainian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Earlier this month, the United States and more than 40 other countries agreed to coordinate investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine.
Since launching a special military operation in February, Russian forces have ransacked Ukrainian cities and left bodies in the streets of towns and villages. According to Ukraine, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. Moscow denies any involvement.
There have also been reports of Ukrainians abusing Russian captives, although most of the allegations documented by bodies such as the United Nations are of alleged atrocities committed by Russian invaders and their proxies.
Bastrykin was asked about his committee's investigation into the actions of Ukrainian security forces in the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, separatist, Moscow-backed regions in Ukraine's industrial east, and whether they were conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. can be done.
Bastrykin was asked about his committee's investigation into the actions of Ukrainian security forces in the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, separatist, Moscow-backed regions in Ukraine's industrial east, and whether they were conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. can be done.
He said it was "adjustable" to include countries with an independent stance on Ukraine, "particularly Syria, Iran and Bolivia".
According to Bastrykin, 1,300 criminal investigations have been launched into members of Ukraine's military, political leadership, radical nationalist associations and armed structures, holding more than 400 people accountable so far.
The targets of the investigation included employees of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, whom they accused of developing weapons of mass destruction without providing evidence, as well as citizens of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and Georgia.
He also said that eight criminal cases had been registered in connection with attacks on Russian embassies or other representations in the Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and France.
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