According to journalists, more than 600 Russians appear in cases of war crimes in Ukraine, including high-ranking military officers and officials.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has collected hundreds of dossiers on the Russian military, who are suspected of war crimes. Some of them are high-ranking military personnel of the RF Armed Forces. The Guardian writes about it.
As Alexander Filchakov, chief prosecutor of the Kharkiv region, said, Russian commanders and generals began to be placed on a special “scheme map” with war criminals last year.
“And we continue to update the list, week after week,” Filchakov said.
Journalists have collected data on some high-ranking Russian commanders who are suspected of war crimes.
Butcher of Mariupol
The publication writes that the bombing of Mariupol is compared to the siege of the Syrian city of Aleppo, after the Russian Federation launched its campaign to support President Bashar al-Assad in 2015. The destruction of both cities was commanded by Colonel-General of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev.
Military experts interviewed in Mariupol, he used some of the experience gained in Syria, where he led the brutal bombing that destroyed much of Aleppo. Mizintsev first cut off the Ukrainian forces from their supply lines and then pressed them street by street, ordering indiscriminate shelling and bombardment of the city.
Shelling of Kharkiv with cluster munitions
Journalists write that the Russians repeatedly bombard the north-eastern region of Kharkov with RBC-500 cluster bombs and 300-mm cluster munitions from the Smerch multiple rocket launcher system. The publication writes that most likely Colonel-General of the RF Armed Forces Alexander Zhuravlev was the one who signed the order to start indiscriminate shelling of Kharkov. It is noted that Zhuravlev also helped Mizintsev wipe Aleppo from the face of the earth.
True, as stated in the material, after the Ukrainian offensive and the de-occupation of almost the entire territory of the Kharkiv region, Zhuravlev was removed from his position and Lieutenant General Roman Brednikov was put in his place.
Zhuravlev, 57, reportedly traveled to Syria three times and was awarded one of Russia’s highest military awards: Hero of the Russian Federation.
Rocket strikes on Kremenchuk and the Dnieper
The publication reports that the missile strikes that destroyed the Amstor shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022, as well as a residential multi-storey building in Dnipro in January 2023, were commanded by Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Oleg Timoshin.
According to journalists, almost nothing is known about this Russian military man. He studied at the Tambov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School and was appointed regiment commander after his predecessor, Colonel Vadim Beloludtsev, died in 2019.
It will also be reported that Timoshin’s immediate superior in the chain of command is Sergey Dronov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, who is responsible for all air operations of the military in Ukraine. He also led the Russian air force in Syria.
Massacre in Bucha
The publication recalled that after Russian troops left Bucha in the Kyiv region, 458 bodies were found in the city, buried in dozens of mass graves. Hundreds more corpses of civilians were found under the rubble of houses in Borodianka and Gostomel. It is assumed that the operation of the RF Armed Forces in this area was led by 40-year-old Azatbek Omurbekov.
The material says that Omurbekov, a native of Uzbekistan, is currently serving as commander of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade. In 2014, he was awarded “for outstanding services” by the then Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Dmitry Bulgakov.
True, it is reportedly unclear where Omurbekov is at the moment. Some sources say that after the retreat from the Kyiv region, Omurbekov was transferred to Belarus. However, according to other sources, they subsequently reached Belgorod, from where they joined other regiments in operations in the Kharkov region.
It is noted that Omurbekov, like all senior officers stationed in Ukraine, carried out the orders of Oleg Salyukov, army general and current commander-in-chief of the Russian ground forces.
Earlier, NYT journalists reported that the ICC would open two cases of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. So, in The Hague they are going to initiate cases on the abduction of Ukrainian children and deliberate strikes by the RF Armed Forces on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine.
