Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin has said that the number of executions by the occupiers of Ukrainian prisoners of war has increased over the past year.
He told about this in an interview with the Belgian La Libre, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
"We can prove that these cases are not isolated incidents, but an organized and purposeful policy. For example, we have an audio recording in which a Russian officer orders his troops not to take prisoners on the battlefield, but to kill Ukrainians," the Prosecutor General said.
According to him, torture and executions without trial and investigation are used as weapons of war, intimidation and destruction.
"The majority of Russian war criminals were convicted by Ukrainian courts in absentia, but the court's verdict is of fundamental importance for the process of restoring justice and healing the victims," added the Prosecutor General.
He emphasized that the investigation of war crimes during the war is extremely difficult.
"We document, investigate and prosecute in national courts every crime committed by the aggressor. But our task goes much further. We implement a methodology for prosecuting more specific crimes, such as sexual violence, crimes against children and environmental crimes," Kostin said.
According to the Prosecutor General, one of the key tasks for justice is the responsibility of russia and its leadership for the crime of aggression, without which there would not have been more than 140,000 war crimes.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Institute for the Study of War records an increase in the number of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the entire front line.
Russian commanders are likely to "indulge, encourage or directly order" the executions. DeepState, citing sources in the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, reported that the russian military probably shot nine Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk Oblast.
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