You will be convicted

Military crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian invaders in Ukraine are documented in hot pursuit, almost in real time. Thanks to digital technologies and unprecedented international mobilization, the speed and effectiveness of the investigation do not leave Russian criminals a chance of impunity. In Ukraine, trials have already begun, the first sentence has been issued.

A new page has been opened in the history of international justice. This week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sent an investigative brigade of 42 people to Ukraine. Mus has signed an agreement on the exchange of data with the Euro -YUST - the EU Board of Judicial Cooperation. The mandate of this organ has recently been expanded, the United Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Investigative group was formed . Ukrainian justice, the structures of the EU and the UN, incorrect organizations have combined efforts, several online platforms for collecting evidence work. The stories of victims and witnesses, photos, videos, audio recordings - all this will be carefully analyzed and presented on international processes.

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are investigating 11,600 facts of war crimes committed near Kiev, as well as in the Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkov regions in late February and March. These are extra -court executions, abductions, torture, rape, shelling and bombing of residential areas, the use of prohibited types of weapons. In the occupied territories, crime continues. It is already clear that Mariupol will be in the first place in terms of the scale of atrocities. So far, 45 suspects in violation of the laws and customs of war have been established (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The first processes

21-year-old sergeant Vadim Shishimarin , captured by a contractor of the 4th Panzer Kantemirov Division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was sentenced by the Ukrainian court to life imprisonment . During the interrogation, he admitted that during the retreat by order of the officer, he shot in an unarmed civilian while driving on a car stolen from civilians in the village of Chupakhovka of the Sumy region. Shishimarin pleaded guilty and apologized to the widow. The verdict was announced on May 23.

On May 19, in Poltava in the Kuthelevsky District Court, the 438th article of the two Russian military-the 23-year-old guide of Alexander Ivanov and the 27-year-old charging Alexander Bobykin began to be judged by the 438th article. They are accused of on February 24, on the first day of the war, fired from the "Grad" villages of Cossack Lopan and veterinary in the Kharkov region. In the Cossack Lopani, as a result of their actions, an electric substance, power lines, residential buildings, in a veterinary - lyceum were damaged. Bobykin and Ivanov fully pleaded guilty and agreed to testify. Both stated that they did not know where they shot, and they learned about the entry of shells in civilian facilities already during the investigation. Although in an interview with the Ukrainian blogger Vladimir Zolkin Ivanov said that he did not participate in any of the two episodes sane, since during the first salvo he refused to shoot, and during the second he was "in the medic", the indictment speaks of Ivanov’s participation in two volleys.

Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov

Under the same article on April 23, the SBU notified the suspicion (analogue of the charges) of the pilot of the Russian VKS Major Alexander Krasnoyartsev . According to the notification , on March 5, Krasnoyarstsev deliberately used ammunition for the murder of the civilian population of Chernigov. After the Su-Z4 fighter Krasnoyartsev was shot down by the air defense of Ukraine, he jumped out with parachute and landed in the courtyard of house No. 9 on Rudnev Street in Chernigov, where Makarov killed a civilian Vitaly Sergeyenko born in 1980.

On February 27 and 28, 2022, Russian troops struck 11 strokes on Kharkov and using the Smerch salvo fire system with prohibited cassette ammunition, and SNN journalists installed . Kharkov fired at the 79th missile-artillery brigade, now based in the Belgorod region. Journalists concluded that only the commander of the Western Military District, Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlev , in whose submission is the 79th brigade, could give the order to use the Tornado. The cluster ammunition of the Smerch RSOs have 72 combat elements that affect the area the size of a football field 33 thousand fragments. It is known about the use of these ammunition by Russians not only in the Kharkov, but also of Sumy, Kiev, Donetsk, Odessa, Kherson and Nikolaev regions. According to international laws, military criminals are the lower soldiers and commanders who complied with the criminal order of Zhuravlev.

Buchansky evidence

Reuters journalists identified several military people who participated in the murders of the civilian population in Buch of the Kiev region. The Russian war week lived in the house of a 50-year-old engineer Vitaly Zhivotovsky, while he himself with a 20-year-old daughter and neighbor lived in the basement. Zhivotovsky said that at least seven people with white bags on their heads were once brought to the neighboring basement. Another time, the soldiers brought a tall man with a bag on their heads in the courtyard of the house of Zhivotovsky. Later on the same day, Zhivotovsky saw the prisoner on his knees by the back fence; He heard him beat him, and then heard several shots. In the place where Zhivotovsky saw the prisoner, Reuters journalists found sleeves and numerous bullet holes in the fence.

Zhivotovsky, after the departure of Russians from the Kiev region, found in his house a letter written by Oksana Rybakova by the name of Alexander Logvinenko . She worries about his safety, asks how he is doing, writes that he is proud of him. Reuters found out that Logvinenko is a paratrooper from Pskov, where the 76th landing and screening division is located. Rybakova told the agency that Logvinenko was her roommate, served in the landing and was on the assignment for several weeks.

In the neighboring house, which was occupied by the same group of soldiers, someone wrote on the Wolf68 wall. Reuters found out that Nick Wolf_68 was used on the Web was used by Tambov native Kirill Kryuchkov , who lives in Pskov. Two friends of Kryuchkova reported that he served in the 234th Airborne Crossing Regiment, which is part of the 76th Airborne Forces division, one of them confirmed Reuters that Kryuchkov was in Ukraine.

Reuters discovered three videos published by Kryuchkov, on which the military in the form in the bar drink beer and smoke hookah. One of them has a paratrooper strip, the other in the form of the letter V. The journalists also found in VKontakte many photographs of Kryuchkov with his acquaintance Vitaly Shcherbakov , in which they are dressed in landing form.

Kirill Kryuchkov. Photo from his Instagram

In the building on Yablunskaya Street, 144, the headquarters of Russians was located. The man, who introduced himself as Slavik, told Reuters that on March 4, along with other captives, he was led to the court of the headquarters, divided and made him kneel. He saw the body of a man who was just killed. In the murdered person, Vitaly Karpenko, the builder, who signed up in Teroboron, was identified. When Reuters entered the building, they saw a bloody trail on the ground floor, a bloodied sleeve lay nearby.

The New York Times published evidence that at least seven people killed Russian paratroopers together with Karpenko. Most of the dead, like him, were volunteers of the Ukrainian defense forces. The dead are imprinted on two videos, on one of which prisoners lead across the road, and on the other they are opposite the headquarters of Russians and the military orders them to lie on the ground. Eight witnesses, including the 43-year-old former captive Ivan Skiba, told Nyt that this group of prisoners was detained with the owner of the house, where they hid when the military returned to Buch after the first unsuccessful attempt to take Kyiv. Russian soldiers searched and examined the prisoners for tattoos that would prove their connection with the Ukrainian army, forced some to take off their jackets and shoes, and then took them to the headquarters. In the parking lot in front of the headquarters, the prisoners were forced to kneel, some tied their hands, one of them was shot. Skibu and one of the prisoners were taken to the headquarters, where they beat and interrogated. Then the second prisoner was also shot, and Skibu was taken to the yard to the other detainees. One of the prisoners admitted that he was in Teroboron, and he was released in Terborne. Now the Ukrainian authorities are accusing this person of Gosizmen. The soldiers discussed what to do with the remaining prisoners. “Get rid of them, but not here so that their bodies do not lie,” one of them said. After that, the prisoners were taken to the courtyard, where one killed Ukrainian was already lying, and shot. Skiba during the reprisal was injured, fell and pretended to be dead. The bodies from the building and from the parking lot were also transferred to the courtyard, the corpses lay there for a month. One of the dead, Denis Rudenko, got on both videos - he was in a blue sweatshirt with a hood. On March 5, the bodies of Rudenko and other dead were shot on video from the drone, and on April 2, a photo of a man’s corpse in a similar sweatshirt was published among other photographs of those who died in Buch.

The “important stories” established the identity of one of the paratroopers with the NYT video - this is 37 -year -old Genghis Atantaev , a native of Magadan, who has been living in Pskov for many years.

Genghis Atantaev

NYT with the help of evidence from the Ukrainian side - in particular, documents and stripes - confirmed the conclusions of Reuters that at least two divisions of the Pskov paratroopers - the 104th and 234th guards landing regiments acted in Buch.

Employees of the National Guard of Ukraine found a personality certificate in the former headquarters of Russians in the name of corporal Konstantin Korshunov , a military personnel of the military unit 3179, which is part of the Center for Special Forces of the Rosguard Vityaz. Korshunov is 23 years old, he is from Penza. Two of his acquaintances confirmed that he was serving in the Russian Guard; One of them said that Korshunov is on a business trip. The Vityaz detachment is known for the fact that in 2002 he "released" hostages during Nord-Ost.

Konstantin Korshunov. Photo: "Peacemaker"

The inhabitants of Buchi said that in mid -March, a Russian officer arrived at the headquarters on Yablunskaya - he was nicknamed long due to high growth. This officer worked at the headquarters, he was guarded around the clock. When the locals were nearby, he always turned away. The officer handed over through his guards that he would kill anyone who sees his face. After the arrival of long cases of violence in Buch, it became much more, and the locals were forbidden to bury the dead.

Reuters set the places where the commanders of the Kadyrovtsy detachments recorded their videos from Ukraine: Hussein Mezhidov on February 26, as follows from the video in Telegram, was in Borodyanka; Anzor Bisaev in the video posted on YouTube on March 4, rides along a bombed street in Gostol; The video of March 22 from the telegram channel Ramzan Kadyrov, on which the Chechen security officials are captured under the command of Rayan Dokashev , was shot in Borodyanka.

The 72-year-old pensioner from Buchi, Vladimir Abramov, spoke about the visit of the Chechen security forces to their house: the Chechens ordered Abramov, who lived with him in the neighborhood of his daughter Irina and her husband Oleg to go out with his hands raised. One of the Chechens asked Irin where the "fascists" were hiding, and then set fire to the house. Other Chechens ordered Oleg to remove the shirt, brought him, naked to the waist, in the frost, forced to kneel and fired in his temple. Irina asked the Kadyrovites to kill her.

"Slidism.Info" also identified a number of officers from the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade responsible for massacres in Bucha: this is 34-year-old captain Vladimir Stepnikov , 41-year-old Major Alexander Potapov , 35-year-old Captain Ilya Kryachik , 45-year-old captain Alexei Abramov , 50-year-old lieutenant colonel Andrei Ermishko , 33-year-old captain Sergei Berezhnoye 44-year-old Major Sergey Borisenko .

On Russian TV, Vladimir Stepnikov appeared under a pseudonym.

On May 1, the Ukrainian Volunteer Community Informnapalm published 50 scouts from the 64th brigade, and on May 19, another 70 scouts .

On April 28, the Buchansk district prosecutor’s office assigned the status of suspects in cruelty to the civilian population and other violations of the laws and customs of war ten soldiers of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade located in Buch. "In a fairly short time, the investigation established that during the occupation of boots it was they who seized unarmed civilians into hostages, frowned them with hunger and thirst, kept them on their knees with their hands tied with their hands and sealed eyes, mocked and beat them. They went out of fists and prisods. They knocked out information about the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and aids, and they even tortured some. Russian military men threatened the murder and even imitated the execution of their captives, shooting in their direction.

Private Grigory Naryshkin, Vasily Knyazev, Sergey Peskarev and Albert Radnaev , corporal Semen Maltsev, Mikhail Kashin, Andrey Bizhaev and Dmitry Sergienko , junior sergeant Vyacheslav Lavrentiev and sergeant Nikita Akimov became suspects. Sergienko himself, however, told the Agency that he left the 64th brigade 3 years ago and is now working on a civilian. Kashin's wife Ksenia also claims that her husband was not in Buch, for five years she had quit the army, "alive and well and is at home."

On May 9, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office in absentia reported a suspicion of violating the laws and customs of war, associated with the murder, the three military of the 64th brigade: to ordinary Yerbolu Abilhairov , corporal Shuhrat Sobirov and the younger Sergeant Amangelde Beentaeva . It is claimed that these three on March 12 drunkenly carried out an illegal search with a resident of Buchi Grigory Kasyan, and then went to the house where Sergey Gavrilyuk and Roman Dulyi lived - there, “acting in the group, complementing each other’s actions, in order to perform violence against life, minimizing the possibility of Drumia and Gavrilyuk, caused their life incompatible with the life of damage Duke in the form of a through firearms of the head, and Gavrilyuk - in the form of a through firearms of the head and neck. "

On May 20, Venediktova announced that suspicion of violation of the laws and customs of war was declared in absentia in absentia to the company commander of the 64th brigade, 30-year-old lieutenant Vasily Litvinenko . “He was the senior during the occupation of the Lipovka of the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region. Without his permission, residents of the village could not leave the house for water. He even managed to provide people with medical care,” Venediktova wrote. “The investigation found that subordinate military personnel from an automatic civilian elderly man was pursued to the criminal orders of the company’s criminal orders. They did not stop at the courtyard: soon the invaders from the tank shot the house where they were wounded by a resident. According to Venediktova, other accomplices of these crimes are now being established, as well as the involvement of Litvinenko in the injury of two more residents of Lipovka and the destruction of 18 residential buildings in the village.

Vasily Litvinenko. Photo: FB page Irina Venediktova

On May 18, Human Rights Watch reported on the results of her investigation of war crimes committed by Russian troops in the previously occupied territories of the North-East of Ukraine. In April, employees of the organization visited 17 settlements in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, interviewed 65 people. HRW documented 22 extrajudicial executions, 9 cases of illegal deprivation of life, 6 potential cases of violent disappearance and 7 cases of torture. In addition, employees of the human rights organization gathered 21 certificates of civilians about how they were detained in inhuman conditions.

Rape

In March, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office reported a suspicion of violation of the laws and customs of war to the first Russian soldier suspected of raping a woman. His name was not called. It was claimed that he, being drunk, burst into the house in one of the villages of the Brovarsky district of the Kyiv region, shot the owner, and then, together with his colleague, repeatedly raped his wife. At the same time, he threatened the woman with a weapon, and also threatened her young child. The rapist was put on the wanted list.

On May 17, the prosecutor's office announced that in absentia it reports on suspicion of rape another military-a 20-year-old radiotelephonist of the howitzer artillery division of the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade Bulat Fassakhov . According to the prosecutor’s office and the SBU, in March Fassakhov and his colleague burst into a private house in one of the villages of the Brovarsky district: Fassakhov ordered the colleague to close all the inhabitants in the basement of all the women, and, threatening her with weapons and reprisal against his family, raped her. A few days later, Fassakhov and the three other military went to another house, took their family out into the street, leaving one woman there, and in turn raped her, threatening the murder. Part 1 of Article 438 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, Fasakhov, threatens from 8 to 12 years of imprisonment.

Bulat Fassakhov. Photo from the FB page of the Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova

Rape in the occupied territories is massive. Investigators, journalists and employees of the NGO gathered many evidence, including sexual violence against children.

19 мая украинский омбудсмен Людмила Денисова сообщила , что накануне к ней обратились 10 жертв изнасилований, 8 из которых - несовершеннолетние, в том числе двое десятилетних мальчиков. За сутки Денисова получила 56 звонков с жалобами на сексуальные преступления: жертвами стали девятилетние девочки-тройняшки, которых изнасиловали на глазах у матери, и они получили тяжкие травмы половых органов, а их мать находится в шоковом состоянии; годовалый мальчик, которого изнасиловали двое российских военных, и он умер; двухлетняя девочка, изнасилованная двумя оккупантами и выжившая; мужчины 67 и 78 лет.

"Радио Свобода" и расследовательский проект "Схемы" идентифицировали участников перехваченного телефонного разговора, запись которого опубликовала СБУ: в нем собеседница в России посоветовала военному "насиловать украинских баб". Как выяснили журналисты, это был 27-летний десантник Роман Быковский , разговаривавший со своей женой Ольгой Быковской. Быковский находился на срочной службе в Росгвардии, а затем служил по контракту в 108-м гвардейском десантно-штурмовом полку, принимавшем участие в аннексии Крыма. Супруги живут в Крыму и воспитывают четырехлетнего сына.

СНБО Украины создал сайт "Оккупант", на котором публикуются личные данные военных РФ, участвующих в войне с Украиной. Уже идентифицировано более 101 тысячи солдат и офицеров. Родственники могут связаться с украинскими властями, чтобы узнать о судьбе оккупантов.