Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, the investigators of the National Police have initiated 107,207 criminal proceedings for the crimes of the Russian occupiers and their accomplices.
How many crimes were committed by the occupiers of the Russian Federation
According to the National Police, the investigators discovered:
92,722 proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code)
9,249 — for encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine (Article 110)
3,508 — for collaborationism (Article 111-1)
236 — for treason (Article 111).
Another 75 criminal proceedings were opened by the law enforcement officers for the commission of sexual violence by the Russian occupiers.
The police also discovered 88 places of imprisonment and torture in the de-occupied territories. The most significant number was in the regions of Kharkiv (28) and Zaporizhzhia (26).
Examples of Russian atrocities
After visiting Ukraine and listening to the testimonies of people who survived torture, Alice Jill Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said:
The scale is not random. There is a certain structure here. Someone manages it, someone commits crimes, and someone interrogates — everyone is assigned a role.
One of the cruellest places is the Kherson pre-trial detention center, where the Russian command set up a giant torture chamber.
From March to October 2022 , more than 160 men and women were kept there in inhumane conditions. They were systematically subjected to various forms of physical and psychological torture, electric shock torture, sexual violence, beatings and staged executions.
According to an article by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in IBA Global Insight, one of them, a 32-year-old coffee shop owner from Kherson, who helped protesters against the Russian occupation with water and first aid, was arrested on trumped-up charges.
An American-made cash register was used as an absurd "proof" of cooperation with the USA. For 17 days, he was repeatedly tortured.
The detainee was released only after the family paid 100,000 hryvnias. Before his release, he was forced to record a video saying that he had donated money "to a special military operation."
At least 368 people (including 69 minors) were held in a torture cell in the village of Yagidne, Chernihiv region. The youngest detainee was one and a half months old; the oldest was 93 years old. Ten elderly people died as a result of captivity in inhumane conditions.
The Russian military captured Yevhen Gurianov from Bucha in March 2022. He was accused of being a member of the military unit of the territorial defense of Ukraine.
The detention was because he had motor oil on his hands. However, he was a civilian, an auto mechanic who ran the family business in a backyard garage with his brother and stepfather.
