Military cases of the Russian army and the “fantasy world” of Minister Shoigu
In the middle of the significance of the deficit, at a meeting of the defense departments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tashkent, the head of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said: “During the special operations, we strictly observe the norms of humanitarian law.” Shoigu came up with this by using the Kremlin’s definition of “special operation” instead of the word “war.”
“Strikes are delivered by a high-precision object for random reasons of the armed forces of Ukraine: command posts, airfields, warehouses, fortified areas, objects of the military-industrial complex. At the same time, everything is done to avoid casualties among civilians, ”the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation regulates.
About this lie minister of russiadistributed by the Kremlin media, reports another research material of the Polygraph project, an Internet resource, Voice of America with the aim of spreading lies and propaganda in foreign media and social networks (Polygraph.info).
Accusations on a global scale representing the Russian army, based on reports by major witnesses, international observers and independent media. These reports confirm the alleged violations of the imminent war.
During the World War, humanitarian rights cover civilians, graduates and aid workers, the wounded, sick and prisoners of war. To name just two examples from the laws: it is forbidden to torture trade and deliberately kill civilians.
The Geneva Convention of 1949 and its additional protocols, ratified by almost all countries, including Russia, cover most of the international humanitarian law. the most serious violations apply to “military cases”.
Does Russia comply with humanitarian law?
Russian forces are destroying civilian structures throughout Ukraine. Since the takeover in late February, Russian bombs, rockets and artillery have killed civilians.
As early as February 25, Amnesty International disputed Moscow’s claim that its use only uses precision-guided weapons.
“Russian patients have shown a blatant disregard for life in the world of residents, contamination in densely populated areas with ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with detection accuracy. Some of these attacks have been recognized as military incidents,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
According to the UN, in the first five days of the war alone, at least 102 civilians, including seven children, were killed by military personnel in Ukraine.
“Most of the affected people in the world have been killed by explosive situations with a wide area of effect, including as a result of shelling from free artillery and multiple rocket launchers, as well as air strikes,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on February 28.
During the first month of the war, Ukraine suppresses the capture of the capital Kyiv, shelling and bombing residential areas, injuring and killing many civilians.
Borodyanka, a small town in the Buchansky district, 50 km northwest of the capital of Ukraine, followed the main direction of movement of Russian troops.
On March 1, Russian aviation and artillery dealt a crushing blow to Borodyanka, after which only eight of the city’s 29 high-rise buildings survived. There was not a single military facility in the city.
According to media reports, an adviser to the mayor of Borodyanka, Anatoly Rudnichenko, estimated that about 200 people, mostly civilians, had died as a result of the shelling.
Other towns and villages in the Buchansk region also came under fire. The village of Vablya near Borodyanka was almost completely destroyed. It is alleged that in Andreevka (near Kyiv) the police shot many men and raped several girls. The father who tried to become a daughter was brutally murdered.
The city of Bucha, the administrative center of the district, has become the place for the most high-profile arrests in emergency situations. Photo and video evidence emerged on April 1, after Russian troops were thrown out of the Kyiv region. According to the mayor of Bucha and other local officials, 1,316 bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, in mass graves in nearby forests and elsewhere.
According to the BBC, about 650 civilians were shot in what official Kyiv called “massacres.” Moscow claimed that all detections were “staged by the West and Ukraine.” (The Kremlin continues to claim that reports of global incidents are “false flags”).
In early April, at least 52 victims and about 100 people were injured in a rocket attack on a nearby site in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
The attack came as about 4,000 people, including women, children, and the elderly, who were in the parking lot, were chased out of the city. UN Secretary-General António Guterres earlier said that these and the strikes against civilians and civilian statistics of Ukraine recognize themselves as “a violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, which is mandatory for accountability.”
On April 13, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) published a report on the Russian attack in Ukraine, which focused on February 24 to April 1. According to experts, Russia launched missile and bomb strikes on civilian targets, violating an international humanitarian offense and committing crimes.
On June 27, a Russian missile hit a nearby shopping center in Kremenchuk, a city in central Ukraine. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the rocket explosion “caused a huge number of casualties among the population.” “This facility follows a suspicion of a war crime,” said Yulia Gorbunova, HRW senior fellow for Ukraine.
A UN human rights report released in late June said many of the media and methods of the Russian-Ukrainian war violate international humanitarian law. Attributing most of the social forces, the investigators did not reveal the prestige of Ukraine. “Although on a much smaller scale, it also seems significant that the Ukrainian armed forces are not fully respected. [гуманитарный закон] in the eastern parts of the country,” a report within a report.
In early July, in the Donetsk region in the town of Chasov Yar, a residential building was shelled. At least 48 people died. According to the commander-in-chief of the Donetsk region, these are police military four-seat missiles from the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
“The Clock Yar attack that killed over 34 innocent people reveals the brutal truth behind the lies. [дезинформационной] campaign,” the British Ministry of Defense wrote three days later (At that time, 34 victims of the strike were confirmed).
On the morning of July 14, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the crowded center of Vinnitsa. The impact of the accident killed at least 27 civilians, including 12 women, seven men, seven employees and patients of the Neuromed Medical Center, and three children.
The second OSCE report, published on July 14, confirmed that Russian attacks have killed many people around the world and damaged or destroyed civilian infrastructure among many Ukrainian cities and villages, including homes, hospitals, cultural heritage sites, schools, high-rise residential buildings and administrative buildings.
The report also documented evidence that Ukrainian citizens were aggressively resettled in Russia. Evidence of rape, torture, executions and robberies committed by offenders is also documented.
From February 24, when Russia launched a full-scale second invasion of Ukraine, to August 21, there are 5,587 global deaths and 7,890 injured in Ukraine, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Adjustment.
Ukraine initiated criminal prosecution of Russian prisoners of war accused of war crimes. Meanwhile, the Russian occupation authorities in the Donetsk region are planning to bring to justice the fighters of the Ukrainian Azov regiment captured during the occupation of Mariupol.
On August 10, Reuters reported:
“Although the Conference of the Azov Fighters has not yet received official recognition, on August 2 the Supreme Court of Russia recognized this regiment as a “terrorist struggle”, which gave Russia the opportunity to charge the prisoners under this article.”
“Ukraine, which itself speaks and condemned, are ordinary Russian soldiers for offenders committed against civilians, that the captives from the Azov regiment are prisoners of war defending protection in accordance with the Geneva Convention.”
“The first tribunal will probably take place in Mariupol, and it will be organized before the end of summer, announced to journalists by the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, during a trip organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.”
On August 25, plans of Russian separatists to put Ukrainian prisoners of war in Mariupol on trial condemned the US State Department
“A plan to carry out an arrest in Russia’s Mariupol, the so-called ‘tribunals’ against important defenders of Ukraine, the Kremlin abdicates responsibility for the aggressive defense announced by President Putin, and from the special attention to the irrefutable evidence of atrocities committed by patrol units in Ukraine,” the statement reads. statement. State Department Spokesperson Neda Price.
War criminals are already on trial
In the meantime, thousands of police officers are alleged to have been detained against the Russian army.
Thus, in an analytical article by journalist Justin Ling, published in Foreign Policy on August 12, it is reported:
“Ukraine has already begun to initiate criminal prosecution by the police: in May, the first guilty verdict was handed down to a tank sergeant who [без суда] dealt with an unarmed civilian male. This case was relatively high: the sergeant admitted to shooting at the Ukrainian, but explained that he was simply following orders.” (International law generally does not recognize this so-called “Nuremberg defence”).
“Ukraine’s legal system is not in a position to simply detect common diseases,” Iryna Venediktova, currently Ukraine’s prosecutor general, told the BBC last month. According to her, there are already about 21 thousand war crimes. The Ukrainian judicial system, even in world time, would be overloaded.
“They don’t work alone. The International Criminal Court has established a full-fledged investigative team in Ukraine and is actively gathering evidence for possible prosecution of the perpetrators. Kyiv began to take part in the International Court of Justice, accusing Russia of genocide. Another case, albeit largely symbolic, was brought before the European Court of Human Correction. Allies of Ukraine, including weather conditions and the European Union, providing for an ambulance in the investigation of these war crimes.”