The Russian Investigative Committee (RIC) has collected evidence of crimes of the Kiev authorities against the civilian population in eastern Ukraine.

In the case are involved Oleg Lyashko, Igor Kolomoisky, Arsen Avakov, Valentin Nalyvaychenko, Valery Geletey, Victor Muzhenko, Stepan Poltorak, the AFU commanders, as well as participants in the attacks on the Russian embassy in Kiev.

‘The Investigation Committee investigates such crimes, guided by both the international law and the Russian legislation, allowing to prosecute foreign nationals who commit crimes outside the country, if they have not been punished for it. Moreover, such crimes have no statute of limitations. Our investigators will take all possible measures to call, sooner or later, the perpetrators of these crimes against the civilian population and those who gave the orders, to justice,’ said the official representative of the Committee, Svetlana Petrenko.

She also clarified that the collected materials of the investigation of crimes, involving the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, can be further directed to the international courts or a specially created tribunal. 

There have been interrogated 130 thousand people as witnesses and victims in the criminal case, and have been carried out more than 200 complex forensic examinations. About 20 thousand citizens have been recognized as victims. 

‘The evidence collected suggests massive violations of human rights and freedoms, and a humanitarian catastrophe caused by the actions of the Ukrainian criminal warlords and continuing on the territory of the south-east of Ukraine for a long time,’ said the representative of the RIC.

The Military Prosecutor of Ukraine, Anatoly Matios refused to answer the question about the number of war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the so-called ATO, because, according to him, it does not raise any morale of the Ukrainian army, nor the society’s attitude to it.

According to: Политнавигатор