map featured in today Guardian "how Russia deliberately targeted Kherson’s hospitals"
https://tinyurl.com/yhsumymh
#warcrimes
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-vs-russia-proceedings-over-genocide-convention-at-uns-top-court/a-66816377
#InternationalLaw #internationalism #warcrimes
Ukrainian prosecutors discovered that Russian forces had tortured 75 children throughout the full-scale invasion, Interfax Ukraine reported on Aug. 31.
Most cases of torture took place in #Chernihiv Oblast's village of #Yahidne, which was under Russian occupation for about a month, a Prosecutor General's Office representative told Interfax in an exclusive interview.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #torture #terrorism #children #UkrainianChildren #ChildAbuse #WarCrimes #RussianWarCrimes #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
Russia has deported another 450 children from areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation, the National Resistance Center reported on Aug. 17.
According to the center, 50 Ukrainian high school students were sent to #Yaroslavl, a city about 250 kilometers northeast of #Moscow. The center believes that once there, Russian teachers will try to convince the students to continue their higher education at Yaroslavl State University.
Another:
Were all sent to 'summer camps' in #Krasnodar region.
Ukrainian children are taught to believe Russian propaganda in these camps and attend activities like Russian patriotic concerts. At the end of the camp, #Ukrainian children are often not returned home.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #genocide #UkrainianChildren #RussianWarCrimes #kidnapping #WarCrimes #children #ChildAbuse #StandWithUkraine #LuhanskOblast #KhersonOblast #ZaporizhzhiaOblast
Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency (NACP) added the world's largest private alcohol company Bacardi Limited to the "international sponsors of war" list on Aug. 10.
The Bermudian company continues to do business in Russia during its all-out war against Ukraine.
Following Moscow's full-scale invasion, Bacardi Limited said it would stop exporting to Russia and investing in the market's advertising, but this pledge was later removed from the original statement, reads the report
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-designates-bacardi-as-international-sponsor-of-war/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #Bacardi #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #WarCrimes #war #StandWithUkraine
Russia's Education Ministry introduced updated history textbooks that include segments about the war in Ukraine that Russia calls a “special military operation,” the annexation of Crimea, and Western sanctions, CNN reports on Aug. 9.
The recently published textbooks incorporate maps depicting occupied Ukrainian areas as Russian territories, endorsing Russian officials' narrative that Ukrainians and Russians are "one people." Ukraine is also portrayed in the textbooks as an "ultranationalist state" where all things Russian are regarded hostile and persecuted.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-high-school-textbooks-promote-war-in-ukraine/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #InformationWarfare #propaganda #WarCrimes #Russia #RussianWarCrimes #textbooks #schools
Russia has illegally held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer Serhii Potynh in captivity since June and subjected him to torture, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom reported on July 28.
"More than a month ago on June 23, 2023, the (Russian) invaders abducted Serhii Potynh, a labor protection engineer of the Central Technical and Administrative Department of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, who remained to work at the station," Energoatom wrote on its Telegram channel.
According to the company's statement, Potynh was seen at a police station where the occupation authorities held other employees of the plant and local residents.
"Serhii, held in actual captivity by the Russians, is regularly subjected to torture and physical violence."
The occupation authorities reportedly hospitalize him after every round of torture so that he does not die. Potynh's relatives living under occupation confirmed that he is alive, #Energoatom informed.
https://kyivindependent.com/energoatom-russia-kidnapped-tortured-employee/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #WarCrimes #torture #Civilians #kidnapping #RussianKidnappers #HumanRights #terrorism #RussianTerrorism #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #ZNPP #nuclear
The "Ukrainian-made and Ukrainian-designed" air defense systems are similar to Hawk anti-aircraft weapons, though not a replacement for longer-range Patriot missiles.
Ukraine received and deployed its first Patriot defense systems in April 2023.
Cherniev declined to give a name to the Ukrainian weapons, citing ongoing testing, but said the missiles are "ready."
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-has-developed-its-own-air-defense-systems/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #WarCrimes #AirDefense #AntiAircraft #missiles #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXZy-TrKlw
#USbombingCambodia #displacedpersons #civiliancasualties #warcrimes #KhmerRouge
Jenin, occupied West Bank – The inside of Bassem Tahayneh’s home in the Jenin refugee camp appears as though a tornado had blown through it.
Israeli soldiers used many homes inside the camp as military bases and caused heavy damage to furniture and belongings.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/6/how-israel-used-palestinian-homes-bases-jenin
#Palestinian #civilians #WarCrimes #Israel #army #military #homes #residential #ResidentialBuildings #Refugees #RefugeeCamps #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #WestBank
The head of the Wagner mercenary group has said Ukraine never threatened to attack Russia, as the #Kremlin claimed when attempting to justify its invasion.
The statement by Yevgeny #Prigozhin dramatically raises the stakes in his battle with Russian military chiefs.
In a video message, Prigozhin said: "We exchanged fire: we hit them, they hit us. This was happening all these long eight years, from 2014 to 2022.
"At some points, the number of strikes, the exchange of fire, was increasing, at others - it was decreasing. By February 24 [2022] there was nothing extraordinary.
"Now the Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public; trying to deceive the president and is telling the story that there was insane aggression from Ukraine and they [Ukraine] were going to attack us, together with the entire #NATO bloc.
"The special operation that began on February 24 was launched for completely different reasons."
https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/23/wagner-chief-says-ukraine-never-threatened-to-attack-russia
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WagnerGroup #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianWarCrimes #propaganda #InformationWarfare #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CivilWar #Russia
Moscow has rejected United Nations’ offers to help people in Russian-occupied areas affected by flooding from the collapsed Nova Kakhovka Dam.
The floods destroyed homes and farmland, forced the evacuation of thousands, contaminated supplies of drinking water and sparked fears of environmental disaster.
The UN urged Russia to act in accordance with its obligations under international humanitarian law.
“The UN will continue to do all it can to reach all people – including those suffering as a result of the recent dam destruction – who urgently need life-saving assistance, no matter where they are,” Denise Brown, UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, said in a statement on Sunday.
“Aid cannot be denied to people who need it.”
The death toll from the disaster has risen to 52, with Russian officials saying 35 people had died in areas under its control and Ukraine’s interior ministry saying 17 had died and 31 were missing. More than 11,000 people have been evacuated on both sides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/19/russia-blocks-un-aid-for-kakhovka-dam-collapse-victims
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #KakhovkaDam #flooding #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianAid #PutinWarCriminal #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
A trial against Russia due to the Kakhovka Dam destruction may be launched at the International Criminal Court (ICC) if evidence emerges on concrete individuals involved, #Greenpeace legal advisor Daniel Simons said on June 13.
"There is an active campaign to recognize 'ecocide' as an international crime, but the international community has not yet reached an agreement on this issue," Simons commented.
"However, Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the ICC qualifies as a crime the intentional attack that causes extensive, lasting, and serious damage to the surrounding natural environment, which will be clearly excessive in comparison with concrete and immediately expected general military advantage," he explained.
Simons said a war crimes trial may therefore be opened against specific individuals who ordered the dam's destruction, intentionally inflicting damage to the environment.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #ecocide #KakhovkaDam #ecology #flooding #pollution #WarCrimes #RussianWarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ICC #InternationalLaw #PutinWarCriminal
"Enough Is Enough": Australian PM Throws Support Behind Movement to Free Julian Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gshumy2FMC4
#whistleblower #warcrimes #freespeech #freepress
Out of 974 recorded attacks, 873 impacted medical facilities. The attacks have killed at least 101 people and injured 136 others since Feb. 24, 2022.
Russia’s missile strike on a medical clinic in Dnipro on May 26 is not yet included in the data as it takes time for the WHO to verify all attacks
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #RussianAggression #medical #MissileAttacks #PutinWarCriminal #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #WHO
ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and for official in charge of Moscow's campaign of stealing children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fYpRguSEsY
#crimeofaggression #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity
"This is a residential neighbourhood."
#FaceTheHorror "A war, is when two sides are fighting... so i think right there... we can all agree... it wasnt exactly a war." -- Bill Hicks.
"You must remember that the attack on Iraq, although presented as a war, it was not a war. It was so one sided, and it became an attack on the civilian population. The most vivid, and probably the most educative, revelation, was collateral murder." -- John Pilger
"THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_lYSEcqdA #IllegalInvasion #1MillionDeadIraqis
not the first time. #SeeWhatTheyDo #ruthless #deskkillers #CollateralMurder #wokepeopleuptothehorror #facethehorror #Iraq #WikiLeaks #JohnPilger #NotAWar " #LightThemUp " #deathfromabove #AreWeTheBaddies #UnarmedCivilians #WarCrime #WarCrimes #asymmetry #NotAThreat #Unarmed #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #TheyLied #FullSpectrumDominance #hypocrisy #TheyBombedMyHouse #Hate ... " #LookAtThoseDeadBastards " " #Nice " ... #EnemyCombatant #CollateralDamage #KilledCivilians #Orwellian ... #FirstTheyCame #NotInOurName #ThereIsSomethingYouCanDo #YouWillFindItAndYouWillDoIt
Im Abschlussbericht stellt die @UN Fact Finding Mission on #Libya fest, dass Grund zur Annahme besteht, "dass eine Vielzahl von #WarCrimes und #CrimesAgainstHumanity von staatl. Sicherheitskräften und bewaffneten Milizen begangen wurden."
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