Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine have been recorded in tens of thousands of case files and it must answer them in court, the Ukrainian prosecutor general said in Brussels.
“Russia must be defeated on the battlefield and in the courtroom,” Andriy Kostin told AFP in an interview between meetings with EU officials.
The chief prosecutor accused Russia of committing war crimes as a “pattern of conduct… a policy which is orchestrated from the very top leadership”.
Some 123,000 war crimes cases have been logged since Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he said.
The prosecution work has identified 511 suspects in the case, of which 357 could be brought to justice.
Already, “we have convictions against 81 Russian war criminals”, he added, explaining that 17 had been taken to court in trials and handed prison sentences.
“Some of them are…
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