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Russian war crimes

April 28, 2024

Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide[1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. These accusations have also been extended to the aiding and abetting of crimes which have been committed by proto-statelets or puppet statelets which are armed and financed by Russia, including the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic. These war crimes have included murder, torture, terrorism, deportation and forced transfer, abduction, rape, looting, unlawful confinement, unlawful airstrikes and attacks against civilian objects, and wanton destruction.

Residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a Russian missile attack on 14 January 2023.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented Russian war crimes in Chechnya,[2][3][4] Georgia,[5][6] Ukraine[7][8][9][10] and Syria.[11][12][13][14] Médecins Sans Frontières also documented war crimes in Chechnya.[15] In 2017 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has reported that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons in Syria, constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area.[16] OHCHR also found Russia guilty of war crimes in Ukraine in 2022[17] and 2023.[18] On 13 April 2022, OSCE published a report finding Russia guilty of war crimes in the Mariupol hospital airstrike, while its targeted killings and enforced disappearance or abductions of civilians, including journalists and local officials, could tentatively also be crimes against humanity.[19]

By 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued 115 verdicts (including the virdict in the Baysayeva v. Russia case) in which it found the Russian government guilty of perpetrating enforced disappearances, murder, torture, and failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya.[20] In 2021, the ECHR also separately found Russia guilty of murder, torture, looting and destruction of homes in Georgia, as well as preventing the return of 20,000 displaced Georgians to their territory.[21][22][23]

As a consequence of its involvement in the war in Ukraine, wide-scale international sanctions have been imposed on Russian officials by the governments of Western countries (twice in 2014 and twice in 2022).[24][25] In 2016, Russia withdrew its signature from the International Criminal Court (ICC), when the Court began investigating Russia's annexation of Crimea for possible violations of international law.[26][27] As a result, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3 officially suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council membership due to war crimes in Ukraine. Many Russian officials were found guilty by local courts for war crimes committed in both Chechnya and Ukraine. Ultimately, since 2023, the ICC indicted four Russian officials, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin, for war crimes in Ukraine.

Russian war crimes before 1991 edit

Imperial Russian war crimes edit

Main page: Category:Imperial Russian war crimes
Further information: War crimes in World War I § Russian war crimes, and Pogroms during the Russian Civil War

Soviet war crimes edit

This section is an excerpt from Soviet war crimes.[edit]

From 1919 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union and its armed forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret police, NKVD, including its Internal Troops. In many cases, these acts were committed upon the direct orders of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet policy of Red Terror as a means to justify executions and political repression. In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR, or they were committed during partisan warfare.[28]

A significant number of these incidents occurred in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe recently before, and during, the aftermath of World War II, involving summary executions and the mass murder of prisoners of war, such as in the Katyn massacre and mass rape by troops of the Red Army in territories they occupied.

In the 1990s and 2000s, war crimes trials held in the Baltic states led to the prosecution of some Russians, mostly in absentia, for crimes against humanity committed during or shortly after World War II, including killings or deportations of civilians. Today, the Russian government engages in historical negationism.[29] Russian media refers to the Soviet crimes against humanity and war crimes as a "Western myth".[30] In Russian history textbooks, the atrocities are either altered to portray the Soviets positively or omitted entirely.[31] In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself a war crime fugitive since 2023, while acknowledging the "horrors of Stalinism", criticized the "excessive demonization of Stalin" by "Russia's enemies".[32]

Chechnya edit

Main articles: Chechen genocide, Chechen-Russian conflict, and Death of Nura Luluyeva

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chechnya declared its independence. Russian officials refused to recognize Chechnya's declaration of independence, sparking tensions. These tensions ultimately escalated into a full-scale war when 25,000 Russian soldiers crossed into Chechnya on 11 December 1994.[33] The war ended with de facto Chechen independence and a Russian troop withdrawal in 1996. However, tensions between Russia and Chechnya still existed and they continued to escalate until the second war broke out in 1999, and Russia waged counterinsurgency until 2009. It was concluded when Russia took full control of Chechnya and installed a pro-Russian government. Numerous war crimes were committed, most of them were committed by the Russian armed forces.[34][35] Some scholars has estimated that the brutality of the Russian attacks on such a small ethnic group amounts to a crime of genocide.[36][37]

During the two wars, the Chechens were dehumanized and Russian propaganda depicted them as "blacks", "bandits", "terrorists", "cockroaches" and "bedbugs". The Russian armed forces perpetrated numerous war crimes.[38]

First Chechen War edit

Main articles: First Chechen War and Filtration camp system in Chechnya
 
Russian troops burying corpses in a trench in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War

Throughout the First Chechen War, human rights organizations accused Russian forces of starting a brutal war with total disregard for international humanitarian law, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary civilian casualties among the Chechen population. The main strategy in the Russian war effort was to use heavy artillery and air strikes, leading to numerous indiscriminate attacks on civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, the campaign was "unparalleled in the area since World War II for its scope and destructiveness, followed by months of indiscriminate and targeted fire against civilians".[39]

The crimes included the use of prohibited cluster bombs in the 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack, which targeted a market, a gas station and a hospital,[40][41][42] and the April 1995 Samashki massacre, in which it is estimated that up to 300 civilians died during the attack.[43] Russian forces conducted an operation of zachistka, house-by-house searches throughout the entire village. Federal soldiers deliberately and arbitrarily attacked civilians and civilian dwellings in Samashki by shooting residents and burning houses with flame-throwers. They wantonly opened fire or threw grenades into basements where residents, mostly women, elderly persons and children, had been hiding.[44] Russian troops intentionally burned many bodies, either by throwing the bodies into burning houses or by setting them on fire.[45]

During the First Battle of Grozny, Russian air raids and artillery bombardments were described as the heaviest bombing campaign in Europe since the destruction of Dresden.[46] The Russian historian and general Dmitri Volkogonov said the Russian military's bombardment of Grozny killed around 35,000 civilians, including 5,000 children.[47] This has led to Western and Chechen sources describing the Russian strategy as deliberate terror bombing.[48] The bloodbath of Grozny shocked Russia and the outside world, causing severe criticism of the war. International monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) described the scenes as nothing short of an "unimaginable catastrophe", while former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called the war a "disgraceful, bloody adventure" and German chancellor Helmut Kohl called it "sheer madness".[49]

In a March 1996 report, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) accused Russian troops of firing on civilians and killing them at checkpoints and of summarily executing captured Chechen men, both civilians and fighters.[35] Two cases involved Russian soldiers murdering humanitarian aid workers who tried to save a civilian from execution on a street in Grozny. Russian Ministry of Interior forces officers fired into a group of soldiers who refused to kill the civilian population.[35]

Second Chechen War edit

Main articles: Second Chechen War, Second Chechen War crimes and terrorism, 1999 Russian bombing of Chechnya, and Chernokozovo detention center
 
A building damaged during the war in Grozny

The Second Chechen War, which began in 1999, was even more brutal than the previous war.[50][51] According to human rights activists, Russian troops systematically committed the following crimes in Chechnya: the destruction of cities and villages, not justified by military necessity; shelling and bombardment of unprotected settlements; summary extrajudicial executions and killings of civilians; torture, ill-treatment and infringement of human dignity; serious bodily harm intentionally inflicted on persons not directly participating in hostilities; deliberate strikes against the civilian population, civilian and medical vehicles; illegal detentions of the civilian population; enforced disappearances; looting and destruction of civilian and public property; extortion; taking hostages for ransom; corpse trade.[52][53][54] There were also rapes,[55][56][57] which, along with women, were also subjected to men.[58][59][60][61][62][63]

Some of the crimes committed towards the civilian population included the following: 1999 Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack against civilians, leaving mostly women and children dead.[64][65] The Grozny ballistic missile attack, in which ten hypersonic missiles fell without warning and targeted the city's only maternity hospital, post office, mosque, and a crowded market.[66][67][68] the casualties occurred at the central market, and the attack is estimated to have killed over 100 instantly and injuring up to 400 others. The Russian Air Force perpetrated repeated rocket attacks on a large convoy of refugees trying to enter Ingushetia through a supposed "safe exit" during the Baku–Rostov highway bombing.[69] This was repeated in December 1999 when Russian soldiers opened fire on a refugee convoy marked with white flags.[70]

During the Alkhan-Yurt massacre where Russian soldiers went on a murdering spree throughout the village and summarily executing, raping, torturing, looting, burning and killing anyone in their way. Nearly all the killings were committed by Russian soldiers who were looting.[71] Civilian attempts to stop the madness were often met with death.[72] There has been no serious attempt conducted by the Russian authorities to bring to justice those accountable for the crimes committed at Alkhan-Yurt. Credible testimony suggests that Russian leadership in the region had knowledge of what was happening and simply chose to ignore it.[71] Russian military leadership dismissed the incident as "fairy tales", claiming that the bodies were planted and the slaughter fabricated in order to damage the reputation of Russian troops.[73] Russian general Vladimir Shamanov dismissed accountability for the abuses in the village saying "Don't you dare touch the soldiers and officers of the Russian army. They are doing a sacred thing today-they are defending Russia. And don't you dare sully the Russian soldier with your dirty hands![71]

 
Dead Chechen soldier

In what is regarded as one of gravest war crimes in the war, Russian federal forces went on a village-sweep (zachistka), that involved summary executions of dozens of people, murder, looting, arson and rape of Chechen civilians in what is known as the Novye Aldi massacre.[74][75][76] Russian troops had cluster-bombed the village a day prior before entering the village, telling local residents to come out from their cellars for inspection the next day.[77] Upon entering the village, Russian soldiers shot their victims in cold blood, with automatic fire at close range. Victims ranged from one-year-old babies to an 82 year old woman. Victims were asked for money or jewelry by Russian soldiers, which served as a pretext for their execution if the amount was insufficient. Federal soldiers removed gold teeth from their victims and looted their corpses. Killings were accompanied by arson in an attempt to destroy evidence of summary executions and other civilian killings. There were several cases of rape. In one incident, Russian soldiers gang raped several women before strangling them to death. Pillage on a massive scale took place in the village, with Russian soldiers stripping the houses of civilians in broad daylight. Any attempt to make the Russian authorities take responsibilities for the massacre resulted in indignant denial. Human Rights Watch described the Russian authorities' response as "typical". A spokesperson from the Russian Ministry of Defence declared that "these assertions are nothing but a concoction not supported by fact or any proof . . . [and] should be seen as a provocation whose goal is to discredit the federal forces' operation against the terrorists in Chechnya."[77][75] An eye-witness also said that investigators from the Federal Security Service told her the massacre was probably committed by Chechen fighters "disguised as federal troops".[78]

 
A Chechen woman with a wounded child

During the Staropromyslovsky massacre between December 1999 and January 2000, Russian soldiers went on an apparent spree, rounding up civilians and summarily executing them.[79][80] The crimes included widespread looting and arson. Victims included the entire nine-member family of the Zubayevs, which had reportedly been shot dead in the street by a heavy submachine gun (most likely from an armored vehicle).[81] In one incident, Russian soldiers fired at civilians hiding in a cellar. According to a survivor of the incident, upon having yelled out to the soldiers, "Please don't shoot us, we are local civilians," the soldiers ordered them to come out of the cellar with their hands up. After coming out of the cellar, the Russian soldiers ordered them back down, after which they threw down several hand grenades at the civilians. The survivors were then again ordered back out of the cellar, after which the Russian soldiers shot the survivors with machine gun fire at close range.[79][81][80] The massacre went unpunished and unacknowledged by the Russian authorities.

The 1999–2000 siege and bombardments of Grozny caused tens of thousands of civilians to perish.[82] The Russian army issued an ultimatum during the siege urging Chechens to leave the city or be destroyed without mercy.[83] Around 300 people were killed while trying to escape in October 1999 and subsequently buried in a mass grave.[84] The Russian president Putin vowed that the military would not stop bombing Grozny until Russian troops quote 'fulfilled their task to the end.' In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth.[85] The bombing of Grozny included banned Buratino thermobaric and fuel-air bombs, igniting the air of civilians hiding in basements.[86][87] There were also reports of the use of chemical weapons, banned according to Geneva law.[88]

International humanitarian workers are reported to have been killed by Russian soldiers during the war in Chechnya. On 17 December 1996, six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed in an attack by masked gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, near Grozny.[89] In 2010, Russian special forces officer, Major Aleksi Potyomkin, claimed that the murders were perpetrated by FSB agents.[90] A 2004 report identified Russian soldiers using rape as means of torture against the Chechens.[91] Out of 428 villages in Chechnya, 380 were bombed in the conflicts, leaving a 70% destruction of households behind.[92]

Total casualties edit

 
A Russian soldier stands on a mass grave of Chechens in Komsomolskoye, who were killed in the Second Chechen War, 2000

Amnesty International estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 civilians have been killed in the First Chechen War alone, mostly by indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces on densely populated areas,[93] and that a further 25,000 civilians died in the Second Chechen War.[94] Another source assumes that 40,000–45,000 civilians were killed in the second conflict.[95] Meanwhile, in 1996, the then Russian National Security chief Aleksandr Lebed said that 80,000 people died in the first war.[96] Combined with the military forces, historians estimate that up to a tenth of the entire Chechen population died in the first war,[97] 100,000 people out of a million.[98] Conservative estimates assume that at least 100,000–150,000 people died in the two conflicts.[99] Higher estimates by Chechen officials and nationals assume that up to 200,000–300,000 died in the two wars.[100][101]

Since the start of the conflicts, there have been 57 recorded mass graves in Chechnya.[102]

Human Rights Watch additionally recorded between 3,000 and 5,000 forced disappearances in Chechnya between 1999 and 2005, and classified it as a crime against humanity.

The German-based NGO Society for Threatened Peoples accused the Russian authorities of genocide in its 2005 report on Chechnya.[103]

Georgia edit

Main articles: 2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia, Russo-Georgian War, and Occupied territories of Georgia
 
Nearly-intact Russian missile booster in the bedroom of a Gori house, an example of a possible indiscriminate attack in civilian areas

Following a 7 August 2008 escalation between the break-away region of South Ossetia and Georgia, the Russian forces crossed the international border on 8 August and attacked Georgian soldiers in support of South Ossetia.[104][105][106] Russian soldiers also crossed into the other break-away region of Abkhazia, even though no fighting was recorded there. The war ended on 12 August with a ceasefire brokered by international diplomats. The Russian government recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent countries, though some scholars described that the two regions actually became Russian protectorates.[107]

HRW reported that no proof of intentional attacks on non-combatants by Georgian troops had been discovered.[108]

Russia deliberately attacked fleeing civilians in South Ossetia and the Gori district of Georgia.[5] Russian warplanes bombed civilian population centres in Georgia proper and villages of ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia.[5] Armed militias engaged in plundering, burning and kidnappings. Attacks by militias compelled Georgian civilians to run away.[5]

The use of cluster bombs by the Russians caused fatalities among civilians.[109] Amnesty International accused Russia of deliberately bombarding and attacking civilian areas and infrastructure, which is a war crime.[6] Russia denied using cluster bombs.[110] 228 Georgian civilians perished in the conflict.[106]

Additionally, the Russian military did nothing to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia in the area under its control.[111][112]

Ukraine edit

2014–2021 edit

Main articles: Russo-Ukrainian War, Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War, and War in Donbas (2014–2022)

Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the pro-Russian Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted and fled to Russia, and the new Ukrainian government adopted a pro-European perspective. Russia responded with the annexation of Crimea, which was declared illegal by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 68/262,[113] while pro-Russian separatists declared the unrecognized quasi-state Novorossiya, intending a secession from Ukraine, and an insurgency which eventually led to the war in Donbas, the eastern parts of Ukraine. While Russia denied its involvement in the war in Donbas, numerous pieces of evidence pointed to its support of the pro-Russian separatists. Amnesty International accused Russia of "fuelling separatist crimes" and it called upon "all parties, including Russia, to stop their violations of the laws of war".[8]

 
Damaged building in Lysychansk, 2014
 
Damaged building in Kurakhove, 26 November 2014

Human Rights Watch stated that pro-Russian insurgents "failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid deploying in civilian areas" and in one case "actually moved closer to populated areas as a response to government shelling".[114] HRW called on all sides to stop using the "notoriously imprecise" Grad rockets.[114]

Another report by Human Rights Watch said that the insurgents had been "running amok...taking, beating and torturing hostages, as well as wantonly threatening and beating people who are pro-Kiev".[115] It also said that the insurgents had destroyed medical equipment, threatened medical staff, and occupied hospitals. A member of Human Rights Watch witnessed the exhumation of a "mass grave" in Sloviansk that was uncovered after insurgents retreated from the city.[115]

Insurgents with bayonet-equipped automatic rifles in the city of Donetsk paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets on 24 August, the Independence Day of Ukraine.[116][117] During the parade, Russian nationalistic songs were played from loudspeakers, and members of the crowd jeered at the prisoners with epithets like "fascist". Street cleaning machines followed the protesters, "cleansing" the ground they were paraded on.[116] Human Rights Watch said that this was in clear violation of the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. The article forbids "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment". They further said that the parade "may be considered a war crime".[116]

 
A mural of Ukrainian soldiers and police officers who died "defending Ukrainian unity" in Kyiv

A map of human rights violations committed by the separatists, called the "Map of Death", was published by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in October 2014.[118][119][120] The reported violations included detention camps and mass graves. Subsequently, on 15 October, the SBU opened a case on "crimes against humanity" perpetrated by insurgent forces.[121]

A mid-October report by Amnesty International documented cases of summary executions by pro-Russian forces.[122] A report by Human Rights Watch documented use of cluster munitions by anti-government forces.[123]

In October 2014, Aleksey Mozgovoy organised a "people's court" in Alchevsk that issued a death sentence by a show of hands to a man accused of rape.[124]

At a press conference in Kyiv on 15 December 2015, UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights Ivan Šimonović stated that the majority of human rights violations committed during the conflict were carried out by the separatists.[125]

Amnesty International reported that it had found "new evidence" of summary killings of Ukrainian soldiers on 9 April 2015. Having reviewed video footage, it determined that at least four Ukrainian soldiers had been shot dead "execution style". AI deputy director for Europe and Central Asia Denis Krivosheev said that "the new evidence of these summary killings confirms what we have suspected for a long time".[126] AI also said that a recording released by the Kyiv Post of a man, allegedly separatist leader Arseny Pavlov, claiming to have killed fifteen Ukrainian prisoners of war was a "chilling confession", and that it highlighted "the urgent need for an independent investigation into this and all other allegations of abuses".[126][127] Russia's actions in Ukraine have been described as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot down).[128]

In 2019, the Ukrainian government considered 7% of Ukraine's territory to be under occupation.[129] The United Nations General Assembly resolution A/73/L.47, adopted on 17 December 2018, mostly concurred and designated Crimea as under "temporary occupation".[130]

The United Nations recorded that the war claimed the lives of over 3,000 civilians by 2018.[131]

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    A damaged block of flats in Donetsk, 14 July 2014
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    A destroyed house in the Donbas, July 2014
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    A damaged tower block in Lysychansk, 28 July 2014
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    Damaged building in Snizhne, August 6, 2014
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    A burning block of flats in Shakhtarsk, August 3, 2014
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    A damaged building in Donetsk, August 7, 2014
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    Victims of War in Ukraine – Kyiv Hospital – Exhibition by Still Miracle Photography 02

2022–present edit

Main article: War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Further information: Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
 
Dead civilians after the Kramatorsk railway station attack

On 24 February 2022, Russian forces invaded and attacked Ukraine from the north, south and east, which was interpreted as a form of Russian irredentism.[132][133] HRW and Amnesty International accused Russia of using imprecise cluster munitions in civilian areas, including near hospitals and schools, which constitute unlawful attacks with weapons that indiscriminately kill and maim.[134][135] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Russia's military action as a violation of international law.[136] Amnesty International labeled it an act of aggression that is a crime under international law.[9] Numerous war crimes were recorded, including murder, torture, abductions, deportation, looting, rape against Ukrainian women, terror, attacks on civilians, unlawful airstrikes or attacks against civilian objects, wanton destruction, unlawful confinement, threats of violence, and inhumane treatment of POWs.[137]

"Russian forces’ widespread and repeated targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure appears primarily designed to instill terror among the population in violation of the laws of war".

Human Rights Watch, 6 December 2022[138]

Among the targets of Russian airstrikes was Ukraine's capital Kyiv, a city of some 3 million people.[139] Kindergartens and orphanages were also shelled.[140] Russian forces were accused of a campaign of terror against Ukrainians.[138][141] On 3 March 2022, Russian forces were reportedly looting across Kherson[142] and selling stolen Ukrainian grain on the world market to finance Putin's war.[143] During the Siege of Mariupol, the city was destroyed by shelling and cut off from electricity, food and water. A 6-year-old girl was reported to have died from dehydration under the ruins of her home in Mariupol on 8 March.[144] During the assault on Irpin, the Russian forces indiscriminately fired at refugees trying to flee across a collapsed bridge. A family of four was killed by a mortar strike.[145][146]

 
Bucha massacre

During the Battle of Kharkiv, the city was destroyed by Russian shelling, including a boarding school for blind people. Out of a population of 1.8 million, only 500,000 people remained in Kharkiv by 7 March 2022.[147] On 28 February 2022, a Russian cluster bomb attack killed 9 civilians and wounded 37 more in Kharkiv.[148][149] On 3 March, 47 civilians were killed in Chernihiv, most of whom were standing in line at a food store, waiting for bread, when a Russian air strike with eight unguided aerial bombs hit them.[150] In the Mariupol hospital airstrike, three people were killed, including a young girl;[151] whereas hundreds died in the Mariupol theatre airstrike, used as an air raid shelter.[152] Following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the E-40 highway around the Kyiv area, BBC News discovered 13 dead bodies left lying on the road, only two wearing Ukrainian military uniforms. The evidence points to Russian soldiers killing these fleeing civilians.[153]

After the Russian forces left the area of Bucha after a month of occupation, on 1–3 April photos and videos emerged showing hundreds of killed people lying on the streets or in mass graves. The event triggered an international response as it was widely covered by journalists as the Bucha massacre.[154]

 
 
The body of the 4-year-old girl Liza Dmitrieva (left) and the severed part of her mother's leg (right) after the Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia in July 2022. Liza became one of the symbols of Russian atrocities in Ukraine[155]

Thousands of civilians were killed by Russia's indiscriminate shelling and missiles strikes against civilian areas: in Borordianka,[156] Kramatorsk,[157] Vinnytsia,[158] Chasiv Yar,[159] Serhiivka,[160] and others. A Ukrainian official said that Russia is using mobile crematoriums to dispose of bodies in Mariupol in an attempt to cover up evidence of war crimes and hide the number of people that have died.[161] On 7 May 2022, the Bilohorivka school bombing killed dozens of people sheltering in the basement.[162] Odesa was bombed continuously for months.[163] On 15 June 2022, OHCHR expressed concerns over reports that Ukrainian children were forcibly deported to Russia, where they were being sent for rushed adoption, stating that these "do not appear to include steps for family reunification or respect the best interests of the child". UNICEF similarly declared that "adoptions should never occur during or immediately after emergencies".[164]

The people of Ukraine have suffered unimaginable horror during this war of aggression over the last 12 months. Let us be clear: the hands of Vladimir Putin and his armed forces are stained with blood.

Amnesty International, 22 February 2023[165]

Russian filtration camps were set-up to detain, interrogate and torture Ukrainians suspected to have connections with Ukrainian government.[166] On 14 July 2022, OSCE released a report finding that Russia was guilty of murder, rape, abduction and deportations of Ukrainian civilians, including the transfer of 2,000 children from orphanages and institutions to Russia, even though many have relatives in Ukraine, which qualifies as a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population, and is a crime against humanity.[167]

 
Izium mass grave exhumations, September 2022

Videos of the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war in summer 2022[168] and castration of another one in Pryvillia[169] were widely condemned by international community. Several scholars declared that Russia was committing genocide in Ukraine.[170] This assertion was corroborated by a report by New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights which inferred that Russia breached two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention.[171]

On 14 September 2022, Ukrainian authorities discovered a mass grave with 440 corpses in Izium after the Russian forces withrdrew from the area.[172] The events were described as the Izium massacre. Since October–November 2022, Russian forces used missiles and drones to systematically attack Ukraine's electrical grids, leaving millions of civilians without heating, electricity, water, or other basic utilities during winter. These attacks on critical civilian infrastructure were deemed as illegal and as war crimes.[173][174] This disrupted the power and water supply to 10,700,000 Ukrainian homes at one point in winter.[10] On 14 January 2023, a Russian missile strike was fired directly at a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, killing over 40 civilians and making over a 1,000 people homeless.[175] On 14 April 2023, Russian S-300 missiles struck residential buildings in Sloviansk on Easter Good Friday, killing a dozen civilians.[176] On 3 May 2023, Russia shelled a train station and a grocery store in Kherson during the busiest hour of the day, killing over 20 civilians.[177]

The Russian Army also perpetrated wanton destruction of Ukrainian cities and cultural destruction, including confiscating and burning Ukrainian books, historical archives, and damaging more than 240 Ukrainian heritage sites,[178] described as a "urbicide".[179] 90% of Mariupol was destroyed by the Russian 2022 siege.[180] Marinka and Popasna were similarly completely destroyed and were described as "post-apocalyptic wasteland" and "ghost towns".[181][182] The UN called Russian bombing of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Odesa a possible war crime.[183] The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on 6 June 2023 caused flooding and environmental devastation, with some accusing Russia of ecocide.[184][185]

 
Firemen evacuating the wounded in Kyiv after the 29 December 2023 missile attack

UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine condemned Russia's bombings on numerous occasions, including in Kramatorsk[186] and Chernihiv[187] in 2023. HRW labelled the Lyman cluster bombing a war crime.[188] On the night of 29 December 2023, Russia launched the most massive missile and drones attack against Ukraine, leaving dozens of civilians dead. At least 158 missiles were fired across Ukraine, targeting Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Cherkasy, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia. UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Russia for attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure.[189]

A UN report concluded that the Russian forces tortured and killed at least 32 Ukrainian POWs between December 2023 and February 2024.[190] On 22 March 2024, Russian forces perpetrated another wave of strikes with drones and missiles against Ukraine, leaving 1.5 million without electricity, which the UN condemned as a violation of IHL.[191] On 17 April 2024, a Russian missile strike hit an eight-storey building in Chernihiv, killing 18 civilians.[192]

Total casualties edit

By 30 March 2022, the UN reported that 4 million refugees fled Ukraine, that 50 hospitals in the country were targeted, and that Russia used the banned cluster munition in at least 24 instances.[193] Russia's attack against Ukraine forced 14 million people to flee their homes, of which 7.8 million fled the country,[194] sparking the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century.[195] On 22 April 2022, the UN recorded at least 2,343 killed civilians, of which 92.3% were attributable to the Russian armed forces.[196] By 21 February 2023, a year into the invasion, the UN recorded 8,006 killed civilians, including 487 children.[197] By April 2024, the number of civilian fatalities verified by the UN was 10,810, including 600 children,[198] whereas Ukrainian sources reported of 16,500 killed civilians by January 2023.[199] The Peace Research Institute Oslo estimated 81,000 total dead in 2022.[200]

 
Total number of destroyed or damaged homes in Ukraine by 2023[201] compared to other modern wars

In February 2024, Ukrainian officials estimated up to 50,000 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the Russian invasion. US officials estimated around 70,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers and 120,000 dead Russian soldiers.[202] Carl Conetta, co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives, estimated that the war directly took the lives of 20,000 Ukrainian civilians and indirectly another 20,000 (due to such effects as lack of access to essential health care) by May 2023, reaching the levels of death toll comperable to Yugoslav Wars and the worst months of the Iraq War.[203]

From 24 February 2022 to 30 June 2023, OHCHR assessed that 90.5% of all civilian fatalities were killed by explosive weapons with wide area effects, and that 84.2% of them were recorded on the Ukrainian-controlled territory.[204] No region in Ukraine was spared from Russian attacks. By one estimate, only 3% of all Russian missiles, drones and bombs hit military targets, while 97% hit civilians targets.[198] By June 2023, UNDP estimated 1.5 million homes in Ukraine were either damaged or destroyed in the Russo-Ukrainian War.[201] By comparison, approximately 2 million homes were damaged or destroyed in Ukraine during World War II.[205]

On 3 July 2023, Around 700,000 children have been brought from conflict zones in Ukraine to Russian territory, according to a Russian MP, leading to concerns over illegal deportations and forced removals.[206]

Syria edit

Main articles: Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and Russian–Syrian hospital bombing campaign
 
Russian aircraft drop firebombs in northern Aleppo in June 2016.

On 30 September 2015, Russian military intervened directly in the Syrian Civil War on the side of the pro-Russian government of Bashar al-Assad. According to Amnesty International, in late February 2016 Russian warplanes deliberately targeted civilians and rescue workers during their bombing campaign.[207] The human rights group has documented attacks on schools, hospitals and civilian homes. Amnesty International also said that "Russia is guilty of some the most egregious war crimes" it had seen in decades. The director of Amnesty's crisis response program, Tirana Hassan, said that after bombing civilian targets, the Russian warplanes "loop around" for a second attack to target the humanitarian workers and civilians who are trying to help those have been injured in the first sortie.[207]

In February 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported extensive use of cluster munitions by Syria and Russia, in violation of United Nations resolution 2139 of 22 February 2014, which demanded that all parties end "indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas". HRW said that "Russian or Syrian forces were responsible for the attacks" and that the munitions were "manufactured in the former Soviet Union or Russia" and that some were of a type that had "not been documented as used in Syria" prior to Russia's involvement in the war, which they claimed, suggested that "either Russian aircraft dropped them or Russian authorities recently provided the Syrian government with more cluster munitions, or both".[12] HRW also noted that while neither Russia nor Syria are parties to the Cluster Munitions Convention, the use of such munitions contradicts statements issued by the Syrian government that they would refrain from using them.[12] Russian indiscriminate bombings against civilians, using banned cluster bombs or firebombing, were often deemed as a violation of international law, mostly during the battle of Aleppo[14][13] and siege of Eastern Ghouta.[208] Several parallels were drawn between the 2016 destructions in Aleppo with those from Grozny in 2000,[86] described by some as indicating a joint policy of "take no prisoners".[87] Between May and July 2019, heavy Russian bombardments killed 544 civilians in the assault on Idlib.[209] On 22 July 2019, the Ma'arrat al-Numan market bombing killed 43 civilians.[210] On 16 August 2019, Russian fighter jets perpetrated an airstrike on Hass refugee camp, killing 20 civilians.[211][212]

On 6 March 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council published a public report confirming that the Atarib market bombing was perpetrated by the Russian military. A Russian fixed-wing aircraft using unguided weapons, including blast weapons, were used against this location. The report concluded that using such heavy weapons on densely populated civilian areas may amount to a war crime.[213][214] On 2 February 2017, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on the battle of Aleppo, confirming that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons. It concluded that their use on densely populated area in eastern Aleppo "amounts to the use of an inherently indiscriminate weapon, constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area".[16]

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that Russian air strikes and artillery shells have killed 18,000 people, including nearly 8,000 civilians, in Syria by 1 October 2018.[215]

Central African Republic edit

See also: Central African Republic Civil War

On 27 October 2021, the UN experts of the Human Rights Council warned that Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group "violently harassed and intimidated civilians, including peacekeepers, journalists, aid workers and minorities in the Central African Republic". It called on the government of the Central African Republic to sever all ties with the Wagner Group.[216][217]

Examples of crimes believed to have been committed by Wagner Group members in the Central African Republic include the Aïgbado massacre,[218] killing of 12 unarmed men near Bossangoa on 21 July 2021, and beating and holding suspected rebels in inhuman conditions in an open hole at a national army base in Alindao between June and August 2021.[219]

Mali edit

See also: Mali War

In April 2022, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Russian mercenaries, believed to be members of the Wagner Group, had committed atrocities against hundreds of civilians in Mali, alongside members of the Malian Armed Forces. According to the NGO, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, as many as 456 civilians died in nine incidents involving Malian forces and Wagner fighters, between January and mid-April 2022. The largest single atrocity was committed by Russian and Malian forces in the Moura massacre, where around 300 civilian men were killed on 23 March 2022.[220][221][222]

Legal proceedings edit

Regional edit

The Russian government denied accountability in its local courts. While thousands of investigations were undertaken, only one person was convicted for crimes against the Chechens in the Chechen wars—Yuri Budanov, convicted by a Russian court of kidnapping and murder of Elza Kungaeva and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003[223]—which led Amnesty International to conclude that there is "no accountability" and that a Russian "lack of prosecution has resulted in a climate of impunity".[224]

On 29 March 2005 Sergey Lapin was sentenced to 11 years for torture of Chechen student Zelimkhan Murdalov in police custody, who disappeared since.[225] In December 2007, Lt Yevgeny Khudyakov and Lt Sergei Arakcheyev were sentenced to 17 and 15 years for killing three Chechen construction workers near a Grozny checkpoint in January 2003.[226]

 
In 2022, former FSB employee Igor Strelkov was sentenced in absentia by a Dutch court to a life in prison for shooting down MH17

On 24 May 2018, after extensive comparative research, the Dutch investigation concluded that the Buk that shot down the 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Kursk.[227] In a statement by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs of 5 July 2017, it was announced that several countries will prosecute any suspects identified in the downing of flight MH17 in the Netherlands and under Dutch law.[228] A future treaty between the Netherlands and Ukraine will make it possible for the Netherlands to prosecute in the cases of all 298 victims, regardless of their nationality. This treaty was signed on 7 July 2017.[229] On 19 June 2019, Dutch prosecutors charged four people over the deaths in the MH17 crash: three Russians—Igor Strelkov, a former FSB employee; Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov; former GRU operatives—and one Ukrainian—Leonid Kharchenko—associated with the Donetsk People's Republic.[230][231][232] On 17 November 2022, a Dutch court found Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko guilty and sentenced them in absentia to a life in prison.[233]

On 29 August 2003, a Dutch court (Rechtbank's Gravenhage) found that the Samashki massacre of 250 Chechen civilians was a crime against humanity.[234] On 9 November 2021, Ukraine authorities arrested Denis Kulikovsky, a senior warden of the Izoliatsiia detention center in Donetsk People's Republic, where prisoners were tortured.[235]

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu are both accused of war crimes[236]

On 15 March 2022, the United States Senate passed a resolution unanimously declaring Russia's leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal.[237]

In 2022, National parliaments, including those of Poland, Ukraine, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Republic of Ireland, declared that a genocide was taking place in Ukraine.[238]

On 13 May 2022, Ukrainian authorities started their first war crimes trial involving the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, when Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin was indicted for killing an unarmed civilian in the Sumy Oblast. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.[239] On 31 May, a Kyiv court sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 1/2 years each for firing artillery on two villages in the Kharkiv Oblast.[240] On 8 August 2022, Russian soldier Mikhailo Kulikov was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing from his tank at an apartment building on the outskirts of Chernihiv.[241] On 29 September 2022 Russian Lieutenant Serhiy Steiner was sentenced in absentia to 9 years in prison by a Ukrainian court for looting and destruction of civilian property in the village of Lukyanivka.[242] On 23 December 2022, a Ukrainian court sentenced four Russian soldiers to 11 years in prison for abducting and torturing three residents of Borova who formed an Anti-Terrorist Unit.[243] On 3 March 2023, a Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian pilot to 12 years in prison for dropping eight bombs on the Kharkiv TV and radio station.[244] By December 2022, Ukraine identified more than 600 suspected war criminals from Russia, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.[245]

International edit

The Russian government tried to effectively block or prevent any kind of international prosecution of its role in suspected war crimes by an international court, using its seat at the Security Council to veto resolutions which called for an investigation and bringing accountability of the downing the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Donetsk Oblast[246] and for crimes being committed in Syria.[247] It denied that a chemical attack had taken place in Douma on 7 April 2018, but this was nonetheless confirmed in a report by the UN-backed Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.[248]

On 7 April 2022, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3 suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council due to war crimes in Ukraine.[249]

On 23 November 2022, the European Parliament designated Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, declaring that its widespread military attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters violate international law and endanger Ukrainian civilians in winter.[250] On 19 January 2023, the European Parliament also adopted a resolution recommending the establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute Putin and Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko for war crimes.[251]

In its 2024 report on the siege of Mariupol, Human Rights Watch published a list of 10 people who should be held responsible for war crimes due to their command responsibility:[252]

European Court of Human Rights edit

See also: Mikheyev v. Russia; Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia; and Estamirov and Others v. Russia

Due to impunity for Russian soldiers in Russia, hundreds of victims of abuse have filed applications with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). By 2009, the ECHR issued 115 verdicts (including in Baysayeva v. Russia case) finding the Russian government guilty of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture, and for failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya.[20]

On 21 January 2021, the ECHR also separately found Russia guilty of murder, torture, looting and destruction of homes in Georgia, as well as preventing the return of 20,000 displaced Georgians to their territory.[21][22][23]

International Criminal Court edit

See also: International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
 
International Criminal Court building in The Hague

When the International Criminal Court (ICC) started to investigate Russia's annexation of Crimea for possible violations of international law, Russia withdrew its membership on 16 November 2016.[26] Nonetheless, in its preliminary 2017 report, the ICC found that "the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol would amount to an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation" as well that it "factually amounts to an ongoing state of occupation".[253] It further found that there is credible evidence that at least 10 people have disappeared and are believed to have been killed on Crimea for opposing the change of its status.[254] In January 2016, the ICC also opened an investigation into possible war crimes perpetrated during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.[255]

On 28 February 2022, the ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan announced that he will launch an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine.[256] On 17 March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for war crimes of deportation and illegal transfer of civilians (children) from occupied Ukraine to Russia.[257] Human Rights Watch welcomed the indictment, saying it "advances justice".[258] Amnesty International also lauded ICC's decision, recommending that the indictment should be expanded to include many other war crimes as well.[259]

On 5 March 2024, the ICC indicted Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, Commander of Russian Aerospace Forces, and Admiral Viktor Sokolov, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, for war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated through attacks at civilian objects, causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects, and inhumane acts during the attacks against Ukrainian electric infrastructure from October 2022 through March 2023.[260][261]

US President Joe Biden allowed the US to cooperate with the ICC in sharing evidence of Russian war crimes.[262]

International Court of Justice edit

See also: Ukraine v. Russian Federation (2022)

Ukraine brought a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Russia. On 16 March 2022, a ruling was reached, and the ICJ ordered Russia to "immediately suspend the military operations" in Ukraine.[263]

International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine edit

Main article: International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine

On 4 March 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 32 in favour versus 2 against and 13 absentions to create the International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, an independent international committee of three human rights experts with a mandate to investigate violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[264]

See also edit

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russian, crimes, violations, international, criminal, including, crimes, crimes, against, humanity, crime, genocide, which, official, armed, paramilitary, forces, russia, have, been, accused, committing, since, dissolution, soviet, union, 1991, these, accusati. Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide 1 which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 These accusations have also been extended to the aiding and abetting of crimes which have been committed by proto statelets or puppet statelets which are armed and financed by Russia including the Luhansk People s Republic and the Donetsk People s Republic These war crimes have included murder torture terrorism deportation and forced transfer abduction rape looting unlawful confinement unlawful airstrikes and attacks against civilian objects and wanton destruction Residential building in Dnipro Ukraine after a Russian missile attack on 14 January 2023 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented Russian war crimes in Chechnya 2 3 4 Georgia 5 6 Ukraine 7 8 9 10 and Syria 11 12 13 14 Medecins Sans Frontieres also documented war crimes in Chechnya 15 In 2017 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR has reported that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons in Syria constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area 16 OHCHR also found Russia guilty of war crimes in Ukraine in 2022 17 and 2023 18 On 13 April 2022 OSCE published a report finding Russia guilty of war crimes in the Mariupol hospital airstrike while its targeted killings and enforced disappearance or abductions of civilians including journalists and local officials could tentatively also be crimes against humanity 19 By 2009 the European Court of Human Rights ECHR issued 115 verdicts including the virdict in the Baysayeva v Russia case in which it found the Russian government guilty of perpetrating enforced disappearances murder torture and failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya 20 In 2021 the ECHR also separately found Russia guilty of murder torture looting and destruction of homes in Georgia as well as preventing the return of 20 000 displaced Georgians to their territory 21 22 23 As a consequence of its involvement in the war in Ukraine wide scale international sanctions have been imposed on Russian officials by the governments of Western countries twice in 2014 and twice in 2022 24 25 In 2016 Russia withdrew its signature from the International Criminal Court ICC when the Court began investigating Russia s annexation of Crimea for possible violations of international law 26 27 As a result the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES 11 3 officially suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council membership due to war crimes in Ukraine Many Russian officials were found guilty by local courts for war crimes committed in both Chechnya and Ukraine Ultimately since 2023 the ICC indicted four Russian officials including Russian leader Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine Contents 1 Russian war crimes before 1991 1 1 Imperial Russian war crimes 1 2 Soviet war crimes 2 Chechnya 2 1 First Chechen War 2 2 Second Chechen War 2 2 1 Total casualties 3 Georgia 4 Ukraine 4 1 2014 2021 4 2 2022 present 4 2 1 Total casualties 5 Syria 6 Central African Republic 7 Mali 8 Legal proceedings 8 1 Regional 8 2 International 8 2 1 European Court of Human Rights 8 2 2 International Criminal Court 8 2 3 International Court of Justice 8 2 4 International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine 9 See also 10 References 10 1 Publications 11 External linksRussian war crimes before 1991 editImperial Russian war crimes edit Main page Category Imperial Russian war crimesFurther information War crimes in World War I Russian war crimes and Pogroms during the Russian Civil War Soviet war crimes edit This section is an excerpt from Soviet war crimes edit From 1919 to 1991 a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union and its armed forces They include acts which were committed by the Red Army later called the Soviet Army as well as acts which were committed by the country s secret police NKVD including its Internal Troops In many cases these acts were committed upon the direct orders of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet policy of Red Terror as a means to justify executions and political repression In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR or they were committed during partisan warfare 28 A significant number of these incidents occurred in Northern Central and Eastern Europe recently before and during the aftermath of World War II involving summary executions and the mass murder of prisoners of war such as in the Katyn massacre and mass rape by troops of the Red Army in territories they occupied In the 1990s and 2000s war crimes trials held in the Baltic states led to the prosecution of some Russians mostly in absentia for crimes against humanity committed during or shortly after World War II including killings or deportations of civilians Today the Russian government engages in historical negationism 29 Russian media refers to the Soviet crimes against humanity and war crimes as a Western myth 30 In Russian history textbooks the atrocities are either altered to portray the Soviets positively or omitted entirely 31 In 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin himself a war crime fugitive since 2023 while acknowledging the horrors of Stalinism criticized the excessive demonization of Stalin by Russia s enemies 32 Chechnya editMain articles Chechen genocide Chechen Russian conflict and Death of Nura Luluyeva Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Chechnya declared its independence Russian officials refused to recognize Chechnya s declaration of independence sparking tensions These tensions ultimately escalated into a full scale war when 25 000 Russian soldiers crossed into Chechnya on 11 December 1994 33 The war ended with de facto Chechen independence and a Russian troop withdrawal in 1996 However tensions between Russia and Chechnya still existed and they continued to escalate until the second war broke out in 1999 and Russia waged counterinsurgency until 2009 It was concluded when Russia took full control of Chechnya and installed a pro Russian government Numerous war crimes were committed most of them were committed by the Russian armed forces 34 35 Some scholars has estimated that the brutality of the Russian attacks on such a small ethnic group amounts to a crime of genocide 36 37 During the two wars the Chechens were dehumanized and Russian propaganda depicted them as blacks bandits terrorists cockroaches and bedbugs The Russian armed forces perpetrated numerous war crimes 38 First Chechen War edit Main articles First Chechen War and Filtration camp system in Chechnya nbsp Russian troops burying corpses in a trench in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War Throughout the First Chechen War human rights organizations accused Russian forces of starting a brutal war with total disregard for international humanitarian law causing tens of thousands of unnecessary civilian casualties among the Chechen population The main strategy in the Russian war effort was to use heavy artillery and air strikes leading to numerous indiscriminate attacks on civilians According to Human Rights Watch the campaign was unparalleled in the area since World War II for its scope and destructiveness followed by months of indiscriminate and targeted fire against civilians 39 The crimes included the use of prohibited cluster bombs in the 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack which targeted a market a gas station and a hospital 40 41 42 and the April 1995 Samashki massacre in which it is estimated that up to 300 civilians died during the attack 43 Russian forces conducted an operation of zachistka house by house searches throughout the entire village Federal soldiers deliberately and arbitrarily attacked civilians and civilian dwellings in Samashki by shooting residents and burning houses with flame throwers They wantonly opened fire or threw grenades into basements where residents mostly women elderly persons and children had been hiding 44 Russian troops intentionally burned many bodies either by throwing the bodies into burning houses or by setting them on fire 45 During the First Battle of Grozny Russian air raids and artillery bombardments were described as the heaviest bombing campaign in Europe since the destruction of Dresden 46 The Russian historian and general Dmitri Volkogonov said the Russian military s bombardment of Grozny killed around 35 000 civilians including 5 000 children 47 This has led to Western and Chechen sources describing the Russian strategy as deliberate terror bombing 48 The bloodbath of Grozny shocked Russia and the outside world causing severe criticism of the war International monitors from the Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe OSCE described the scenes as nothing short of an unimaginable catastrophe while former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called the war a disgraceful bloody adventure and German chancellor Helmut Kohl called it sheer madness 49 In a March 1996 report the United Nations Commission on Human Rights UNCHR accused Russian troops of firing on civilians and killing them at checkpoints and of summarily executing captured Chechen men both civilians and fighters 35 Two cases involved Russian soldiers murdering humanitarian aid workers who tried to save a civilian from execution on a street in Grozny Russian Ministry of Interior forces officers fired into a group of soldiers who refused to kill the civilian population 35 Second Chechen War edit Main articles Second Chechen War Second Chechen War crimes and terrorism 1999 Russian bombing of Chechnya and Chernokozovo detention center nbsp A building damaged during the war in Grozny The Second Chechen War which began in 1999 was even more brutal than the previous war 50 51 According to human rights activists Russian troops systematically committed the following crimes in Chechnya the destruction of cities and villages not justified by military necessity shelling and bombardment of unprotected settlements summary extrajudicial executions and killings of civilians torture ill treatment and infringement of human dignity serious bodily harm intentionally inflicted on persons not directly participating in hostilities deliberate strikes against the civilian population civilian and medical vehicles illegal detentions of the civilian population enforced disappearances looting and destruction of civilian and public property extortion taking hostages for ransom corpse trade 52 53 54 There were also rapes 55 56 57 which along with women were also subjected to men 58 59 60 61 62 63 Some of the crimes committed towards the civilian population included the following 1999 Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack against civilians leaving mostly women and children dead 64 65 The Grozny ballistic missile attack in which ten hypersonic missiles fell without warning and targeted the city s only maternity hospital post office mosque and a crowded market 66 67 68 the casualties occurred at the central market and the attack is estimated to have killed over 100 instantly and injuring up to 400 others The Russian Air Force perpetrated repeated rocket attacks on a large convoy of refugees trying to enter Ingushetia through a supposed safe exit during the Baku Rostov highway bombing 69 This was repeated in December 1999 when Russian soldiers opened fire on a refugee convoy marked with white flags 70 During the Alkhan Yurt massacre where Russian soldiers went on a murdering spree throughout the village and summarily executing raping torturing looting burning and killing anyone in their way Nearly all the killings were committed by Russian soldiers who were looting 71 Civilian attempts to stop the madness were often met with death 72 There has been no serious attempt conducted by the Russian authorities to bring to justice those accountable for the crimes committed at Alkhan Yurt Credible testimony suggests that Russian leadership in the region had knowledge of what was happening and simply chose to ignore it 71 Russian military leadership dismissed the incident as fairy tales claiming that the bodies were planted and the slaughter fabricated in order to damage the reputation of Russian troops 73 Russian general Vladimir Shamanov dismissed accountability for the abuses in the village saying Don t you dare touch the soldiers and officers of the Russian army They are doing a sacred thing today they are defending Russia And don t you dare sully the Russian soldier with your dirty hands 71 nbsp Dead Chechen soldier In what is regarded as one of gravest war crimes in the war Russian federal forces went on a village sweep zachistka that involved summary executions of dozens of people murder looting arson and rape of Chechen civilians in what is known as the Novye Aldi massacre 74 75 76 Russian troops had cluster bombed the village a day prior before entering the village telling local residents to come out from their cellars for inspection the next day 77 Upon entering the village Russian soldiers shot their victims in cold blood with automatic fire at close range Victims ranged from one year old babies to an 82 year old woman Victims were asked for money or jewelry by Russian soldiers which served as a pretext for their execution if the amount was insufficient Federal soldiers removed gold teeth from their victims and looted their corpses Killings were accompanied by arson in an attempt to destroy evidence of summary executions and other civilian killings There were several cases of rape In one incident Russian soldiers gang raped several women before strangling them to death Pillage on a massive scale took place in the village with Russian soldiers stripping the houses of civilians in broad daylight Any attempt to make the Russian authorities take responsibilities for the massacre resulted in indignant denial Human Rights Watch described the Russian authorities response as typical A spokesperson from the Russian Ministry of Defence declared that these assertions are nothing but a concoction not supported by fact or any proof and should be seen as a provocation whose goal is to discredit the federal forces operation against the terrorists in Chechnya 77 75 An eye witness also said that investigators from the Federal Security Service told her the massacre was probably committed by Chechen fighters disguised as federal troops 78 nbsp A Chechen woman with a wounded child During the Staropromyslovsky massacre between December 1999 and January 2000 Russian soldiers went on an apparent spree rounding up civilians and summarily executing them 79 80 The crimes included widespread looting and arson Victims included the entire nine member family of the Zubayevs which had reportedly been shot dead in the street by a heavy submachine gun most likely from an armored vehicle 81 In one incident Russian soldiers fired at civilians hiding in a cellar According to a survivor of the incident upon having yelled out to the soldiers Please don t shoot us we are local civilians the soldiers ordered them to come out of the cellar with their hands up After coming out of the cellar the Russian soldiers ordered them back down after which they threw down several hand grenades at the civilians The survivors were then again ordered back out of the cellar after which the Russian soldiers shot the survivors with machine gun fire at close range 79 81 80 The massacre went unpunished and unacknowledged by the Russian authorities The 1999 2000 siege and bombardments of Grozny caused tens of thousands of civilians to perish 82 The Russian army issued an ultimatum during the siege urging Chechens to leave the city or be destroyed without mercy 83 Around 300 people were killed while trying to escape in October 1999 and subsequently buried in a mass grave 84 The Russian president Putin vowed that the military would not stop bombing Grozny until Russian troops quote fulfilled their task to the end In 2003 the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth 85 The bombing of Grozny included banned Buratino thermobaric and fuel air bombs igniting the air of civilians hiding in basements 86 87 There were also reports of the use of chemical weapons banned according to Geneva law 88 International humanitarian workers are reported to have been killed by Russian soldiers during the war in Chechnya On 17 December 1996 six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC were killed in an attack by masked gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi near Grozny 89 In 2010 Russian special forces officer Major Aleksi Potyomkin claimed that the murders were perpetrated by FSB agents 90 A 2004 report identified Russian soldiers using rape as means of torture against the Chechens 91 Out of 428 villages in Chechnya 380 were bombed in the conflicts leaving a 70 destruction of households behind 92 Total casualties edit nbsp A Russian soldier stands on a mass grave of Chechens in Komsomolskoye who were killed in the Second Chechen War 2000 Amnesty International estimated that between 20 000 and 30 000 civilians have been killed in the First Chechen War alone mostly by indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces on densely populated areas 93 and that a further 25 000 civilians died in the Second Chechen War 94 Another source assumes that 40 000 45 000 civilians were killed in the second conflict 95 Meanwhile in 1996 the then Russian National Security chief Aleksandr Lebed said that 80 000 people died in the first war 96 Combined with the military forces historians estimate that up to a tenth of the entire Chechen population died in the first war 97 100 000 people out of a million 98 Conservative estimates assume that at least 100 000 150 000 people died in the two conflicts 99 Higher estimates by Chechen officials and nationals assume that up to 200 000 300 000 died in the two wars 100 101 Since the start of the conflicts there have been 57 recorded mass graves in Chechnya 102 Human Rights Watch additionally recorded between 3 000 and 5 000 forced disappearances in Chechnya between 1999 and 2005 and classified it as a crime against humanity The German based NGO Society for Threatened Peoples accused the Russian authorities of genocide in its 2005 report on Chechnya 103 Georgia editMain articles 2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia Russo Georgian War and Occupied territories of Georgia nbsp Nearly intact Russian missile booster in the bedroom of a Gori house an example of a possible indiscriminate attack in civilian areas Following a 7 August 2008 escalation between the break away region of South Ossetia and Georgia the Russian forces crossed the international border on 8 August and attacked Georgian soldiers in support of South Ossetia 104 105 106 Russian soldiers also crossed into the other break away region of Abkhazia even though no fighting was recorded there The war ended on 12 August with a ceasefire brokered by international diplomats The Russian government recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent countries though some scholars described that the two regions actually became Russian protectorates 107 HRW reported that no proof of intentional attacks on non combatants by Georgian troops had been discovered 108 Russia deliberately attacked fleeing civilians in South Ossetia and the Gori district of Georgia 5 Russian warplanes bombed civilian population centres in Georgia proper and villages of ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia 5 Armed militias engaged in plundering burning and kidnappings Attacks by militias compelled Georgian civilians to run away 5 The use of cluster bombs by the Russians caused fatalities among civilians 109 Amnesty International accused Russia of deliberately bombarding and attacking civilian areas and infrastructure which is a war crime 6 Russia denied using cluster bombs 110 228 Georgian civilians perished in the conflict 106 Additionally the Russian military did nothing to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia in the area under its control 111 112 Ukraine edit2014 2021 edit Main articles Russo Ukrainian War Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas International sanctions during the Russo Ukrainian War and War in Donbas 2014 2022 Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution the pro Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted and fled to Russia and the new Ukrainian government adopted a pro European perspective Russia responded with the annexation of Crimea which was declared illegal by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 68 262 113 while pro Russian separatists declared the unrecognized quasi state Novorossiya intending a secession from Ukraine and an insurgency which eventually led to the war in Donbas the eastern parts of Ukraine While Russia denied its involvement in the war in Donbas numerous pieces of evidence pointed to its support of the pro Russian separatists Amnesty International accused Russia of fuelling separatist crimes and it called upon all parties including Russia to stop their violations of the laws of war 8 nbsp Damaged building in Lysychansk 2014 nbsp Damaged building in Kurakhove 26 November 2014 Human Rights Watch stated that pro Russian insurgents failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid deploying in civilian areas and in one case actually moved closer to populated areas as a response to government shelling 114 HRW called on all sides to stop using the notoriously imprecise Grad rockets 114 Another report by Human Rights Watch said that the insurgents had been running amok taking beating and torturing hostages as well as wantonly threatening and beating people who are pro Kiev 115 It also said that the insurgents had destroyed medical equipment threatened medical staff and occupied hospitals A member of Human Rights Watch witnessed the exhumation of a mass grave in Sloviansk that was uncovered after insurgents retreated from the city 115 Insurgents with bayonet equipped automatic rifles in the city of Donetsk paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets on 24 August the Independence Day of Ukraine 116 117 During the parade Russian nationalistic songs were played from loudspeakers and members of the crowd jeered at the prisoners with epithets like fascist Street cleaning machines followed the protesters cleansing the ground they were paraded on 116 Human Rights Watch said that this was in clear violation of the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions The article forbids outrages upon personal dignity in particular humiliating and degrading treatment They further said that the parade may be considered a war crime 116 nbsp A mural of Ukrainian soldiers and police officers who died defending Ukrainian unity in Kyiv A map of human rights violations committed by the separatists called the Map of Death was published by the Security Service of Ukraine SBU in October 2014 118 119 120 The reported violations included detention camps and mass graves Subsequently on 15 October the SBU opened a case on crimes against humanity perpetrated by insurgent forces 121 A mid October report by Amnesty International documented cases of summary executions by pro Russian forces 122 A report by Human Rights Watch documented use of cluster munitions by anti government forces 123 In October 2014 Aleksey Mozgovoy organised a people s court in Alchevsk that issued a death sentence by a show of hands to a man accused of rape 124 At a press conference in Kyiv on 15 December 2015 UN Assistant Secretary General for human rights Ivan Simonovic stated that the majority of human rights violations committed during the conflict were carried out by the separatists 125 Amnesty International reported that it had found new evidence of summary killings of Ukrainian soldiers on 9 April 2015 Having reviewed video footage it determined that at least four Ukrainian soldiers had been shot dead execution style AI deputy director for Europe and Central Asia Denis Krivosheev said that the new evidence of these summary killings confirms what we have suspected for a long time 126 AI also said that a recording released by the Kyiv Post of a man allegedly separatist leader Arseny Pavlov claiming to have killed fifteen Ukrainian prisoners of war was a chilling confession and that it highlighted the urgent need for an independent investigation into this and all other allegations of abuses 126 127 Russia s actions in Ukraine have been described as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot down 128 In 2019 the Ukrainian government considered 7 of Ukraine s territory to be under occupation 129 The United Nations General Assembly resolution A 73 L 47 adopted on 17 December 2018 mostly concurred and designated Crimea as under temporary occupation 130 The United Nations recorded that the war claimed the lives of over 3 000 civilians by 2018 131 nbsp A damaged block of flats in Donetsk 14 July 2014 nbsp A destroyed house in the Donbas July 2014 nbsp A damaged tower block in Lysychansk 28 July 2014 nbsp Damaged building in Snizhne August 6 2014 nbsp A burning block of flats in Shakhtarsk August 3 2014 nbsp A damaged building in Donetsk August 7 2014 nbsp Victims of War in Ukraine Kyiv Hospital Exhibition by Still Miracle Photography 02 2022 present edit Main article War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine Further information Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine nbsp Dead civilians after the Kramatorsk railway station attack On 24 February 2022 Russian forces invaded and attacked Ukraine from the north south and east which was interpreted as a form of Russian irredentism 132 133 HRW and Amnesty International accused Russia of using imprecise cluster munitions in civilian areas including near hospitals and schools which constitute unlawful attacks with weapons that indiscriminately kill and maim 134 135 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Russia s military action as a violation of international law 136 Amnesty International labeled it an act of aggression that is a crime under international law 9 Numerous war crimes were recorded including murder torture abductions deportation looting rape against Ukrainian women terror attacks on civilians unlawful airstrikes or attacks against civilian objects wanton destruction unlawful confinement threats of violence and inhumane treatment of POWs 137 Russian forces widespread and repeated targeting of Ukraine s energy infrastructure appears primarily designed to instill terror among the population in violation of the laws of war Human Rights Watch 6 December 2022 138 Among the targets of Russian airstrikes was Ukraine s capital Kyiv a city of some 3 million people 139 Kindergartens and orphanages were also shelled 140 Russian forces were accused of a campaign of terror against Ukrainians 138 141 On 3 March 2022 Russian forces were reportedly looting across Kherson 142 and selling stolen Ukrainian grain on the world market to finance Putin s war 143 During the Siege of Mariupol the city was destroyed by shelling and cut off from electricity food and water A 6 year old girl was reported to have died from dehydration under the ruins of her home in Mariupol on 8 March 144 During the assault on Irpin the Russian forces indiscriminately fired at refugees trying to flee across a collapsed bridge A family of four was killed by a mortar strike 145 146 nbsp Bucha massacre During the Battle of Kharkiv the city was destroyed by Russian shelling including a boarding school for blind people Out of a population of 1 8 million only 500 000 people remained in Kharkiv by 7 March 2022 147 On 28 February 2022 a Russian cluster bomb attack killed 9 civilians and wounded 37 more in Kharkiv 148 149 On 3 March 47 civilians were killed in Chernihiv most of whom were standing in line at a food store waiting for bread when a Russian air strike with eight unguided aerial bombs hit them 150 In the Mariupol hospital airstrike three people were killed including a young girl 151 whereas hundreds died in the Mariupol theatre airstrike used as an air raid shelter 152 Following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the E 40 highway around the Kyiv area BBC News discovered 13 dead bodies left lying on the road only two wearing Ukrainian military uniforms The evidence points to Russian soldiers killing these fleeing civilians 153 After the Russian forces left the area of Bucha after a month of occupation on 1 3 April photos and videos emerged showing hundreds of killed people lying on the streets or in mass graves The event triggered an international response as it was widely covered by journalists as the Bucha massacre 154 nbsp nbsp The body of the 4 year old girl Liza Dmitrieva left and the severed part of her mother s leg right after the Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia in July 2022 Liza became one of the symbols of Russian atrocities in Ukraine 155 Thousands of civilians were killed by Russia s indiscriminate shelling and missiles strikes against civilian areas in Borordianka 156 Kramatorsk 157 Vinnytsia 158 Chasiv Yar 159 Serhiivka 160 and others A Ukrainian official said that Russia is using mobile crematoriums to dispose of bodies in Mariupol in an attempt to cover up evidence of war crimes and hide the number of people that have died 161 On 7 May 2022 the Bilohorivka school bombing killed dozens of people sheltering in the basement 162 Odesa was bombed continuously for months 163 On 15 June 2022 OHCHR expressed concerns over reports that Ukrainian children were forcibly deported to Russia where they were being sent for rushed adoption stating that these do not appear to include steps for family reunification or respect the best interests of the child UNICEF similarly declared that adoptions should never occur during or immediately after emergencies 164 The people of Ukraine have suffered unimaginable horror during this war of aggression over the last 12 months Let us be clear the hands of Vladimir Putin and his armed forces are stained with blood Amnesty International 22 February 2023 165 Russian filtration camps were set up to detain interrogate and torture Ukrainians suspected to have connections with Ukrainian government 166 On 14 July 2022 OSCE released a report finding that Russia was guilty of murder rape abduction and deportations of Ukrainian civilians including the transfer of 2 000 children from orphanages and institutions to Russia even though many have relatives in Ukraine which qualifies as a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population and is a crime against humanity 167 nbsp Izium mass grave exhumations September 2022 Videos of the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war in summer 2022 168 and castration of another one in Pryvillia 169 were widely condemned by international community Several scholars declared that Russia was committing genocide in Ukraine 170 This assertion was corroborated by a report by New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights which inferred that Russia breached two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention 171 On 14 September 2022 Ukrainian authorities discovered a mass grave with 440 corpses in Izium after the Russian forces withrdrew from the area 172 The events were described as the Izium massacre Since October November 2022 Russian forces used missiles and drones to systematically attack Ukraine s electrical grids leaving millions of civilians without heating electricity water or other basic utilities during winter These attacks on critical civilian infrastructure were deemed as illegal and as war crimes 173 174 This disrupted the power and water supply to 10 700 000 Ukrainian homes at one point in winter 10 On 14 January 2023 a Russian missile strike was fired directly at a nine storey residential building in Dnipro killing over 40 civilians and making over a 1 000 people homeless 175 On 14 April 2023 Russian S 300 missiles struck residential buildings in Sloviansk on Easter Good Friday killing a dozen civilians 176 On 3 May 2023 Russia shelled a train station and a grocery store in Kherson during the busiest hour of the day killing over 20 civilians 177 The Russian Army also perpetrated wanton destruction of Ukrainian cities and cultural destruction including confiscating and burning Ukrainian books historical archives and damaging more than 240 Ukrainian heritage sites 178 described as a urbicide 179 90 of Mariupol was destroyed by the Russian 2022 siege 180 Marinka and Popasna were similarly completely destroyed and were described as post apocalyptic wasteland and ghost towns 181 182 The UN called Russian bombing of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Odesa a possible war crime 183 The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on 6 June 2023 caused flooding and environmental devastation with some accusing Russia of ecocide 184 185 nbsp Firemen evacuating the wounded in Kyiv after the 29 December 2023 missile attack UN s Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine condemned Russia s bombings on numerous occasions including in Kramatorsk 186 and Chernihiv 187 in 2023 HRW labelled the Lyman cluster bombing a war crime 188 On the night of 29 December 2023 Russia launched the most massive missile and drones attack against Ukraine leaving dozens of civilians dead At least 158 missiles were fired across Ukraine targeting Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Khmelnytskyi Dnipropetrovsk Sumy Cherkasy Odesa and Zaporizhzhia UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned Russia for attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure 189 A UN report concluded that the Russian forces tortured and killed at least 32 Ukrainian POWs between December 2023 and February 2024 190 On 22 March 2024 Russian forces perpetrated another wave of strikes with drones and missiles against Ukraine leaving 1 5 million without electricity which the UN condemned as a violation of IHL 191 On 17 April 2024 a Russian missile strike hit an eight storey building in Chernihiv killing 18 civilians 192 Total casualties edit By 30 March 2022 the UN reported that 4 million refugees fled Ukraine that 50 hospitals in the country were targeted and that Russia used the banned cluster munition in at least 24 instances 193 Russia s attack against Ukraine forced 14 million people to flee their homes of which 7 8 million fled the country 194 sparking the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century 195 On 22 April 2022 the UN recorded at least 2 343 killed civilians of which 92 3 were attributable to the Russian armed forces 196 By 21 February 2023 a year into the invasion the UN recorded 8 006 killed civilians including 487 children 197 By April 2024 the number of civilian fatalities verified by the UN was 10 810 including 600 children 198 whereas Ukrainian sources reported of 16 500 killed civilians by January 2023 199 The Peace Research Institute Oslo estimated 81 000 total dead in 2022 200 nbsp Total number of destroyed or damaged homes in Ukraine by 2023 201 compared to other modern wars In February 2024 Ukrainian officials estimated up to 50 000 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the Russian invasion US officials estimated around 70 000 dead Ukrainian soldiers and 120 000 dead Russian soldiers 202 Carl Conetta co director of the Project on Defense Alternatives estimated that the war directly took the lives of 20 000 Ukrainian civilians and indirectly another 20 000 due to such effects as lack of access to essential health care by May 2023 reaching the levels of death toll comperable to Yugoslav Wars and the worst months of the Iraq War 203 From 24 February 2022 to 30 June 2023 OHCHR assessed that 90 5 of all civilian fatalities were killed by explosive weapons with wide area effects and that 84 2 of them were recorded on the Ukrainian controlled territory 204 No region in Ukraine was spared from Russian attacks By one estimate only 3 of all Russian missiles drones and bombs hit military targets while 97 hit civilians targets 198 By June 2023 UNDP estimated 1 5 million homes in Ukraine were either damaged or destroyed in the Russo Ukrainian War 201 By comparison approximately 2 million homes were damaged or destroyed in Ukraine during World War II 205 On 3 July 2023 Around 700 000 children have been brought from conflict zones in Ukraine to Russian territory according to a Russian MP leading to concerns over illegal deportations and forced removals 206 nbsp Aftermath of a Russian missile strike against warehouses un Odesa Odesa Oblast on 24 February 2022 nbsp Mariupol Drama Theatre Destroyed by Russian airstrike nbsp Mariupol hospital airstrike nbsp Bombing of Borodianka nbsp Ukrainian civilian killed during the Russian bombing of Chernihiv Chernihiv Oblast nbsp Ruins of Rubizhne Luhansk Oblast after Russian shelling on April May 2022 nbsp Ruins of Rubizhne Luhansk Oblast after Russian shelling on April May 2022 nbsp Riviera shopping mall in Fontanka Village near Odesa Odesa Oblast 9 May 2022 nbsp Hotel Ukraine in Chernihiv Chernihiv Oblast after bombardment by Russian forces April 10 2022 nbsp Avdiivka 1st School after shelling by White phosphorus munitions by Russian forces on 18 May 2022 Donetsk Oblast nbsp Russian bombing of residential buildings in Kharkiv Kharkiv Oblast May 29 2022 nbsp 5 storey residential building in Toretsk Donetsk Oblast after Russian shelling on July 28 2022 nbsp Russian bombardment outside Zaporizhzhia nbsp Victims of the Russian shelling of the Market in Avdiivka Donetsk Oblast on October 12 2022 nbsp Pisky in ruins after Russian attack Donetsk Oblast on 27 October 2022 nbsp Fire after strike in Kyiv Oblast nbsp Kyiv after the missile strikes on October 10 2022 nbsp A dead civilian under a blanket after a missile attack on Kyiv city centre on October 10 2022 nbsp Hospital in Vilniansk after missile strike on November 23 2022 nbsp Antonivka Road Bridge after Battle of Kherson nbsp Kherson after shelling by the Russian army on 15 January 2023 nbsp Kharkiv National Academy of Urban Economy after Russian rocket strike nbsp Dilapidated residential area in Bakhmut after Russian shelling March 2023 nbsp West area of the city Bakhmut after Russian bombing April 2023 nbsp House in Kramatorsk after the attack and shelling with Russian missiles on February 1 2023 nbsp Kindergarten in Kherson after the Russian shelling of the city nbsp Destroyed apartment building after a Russian shelling in Uman Cherkasy Oblast on April 28 2023 nbsp Destruction in Pavlohrad after Russian shelling Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 1 May 2023 nbsp Shelled shop in Kherson Kherson Oblast 3 May 2023 nbsp A bombed residential building in Avdiivka Donetsk Oblast 5 May 2023 nbsp Residential building in Kyiv damaged by downed Russian drone 8 May 2023 nbsp Burning buses in Kyiv after the attack 16 May 2023 nbsp The Karlivka Reservoir dam after Russian shelling 25 May 2023 nbsp Hospital in Dnipro Dnipro Oblast after the Russian missile strike 26 May 2023 nbsp Residential building in Kyiv which caught fire due to falling of fragments of a downed Russian drone 30 May 2023 nbsp Flood in Kherson region after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam 6 June 2023 nbsp Destroyed building in Odesa Odesa Oblast 14 June 2023 nbsp Damaged 25 storey residential building in Kyiv 24 June 2023 nbsp Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa Odesa Oblast after Russian missile attack on 23 July 2023 nbsp Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa after a Russian missile strike on 23 July nbsp Granary in the Port of Reni Odesa Oblast after a Russian strike on July 24 2023 nbsp Aftermath of a missile strike on a shopping mall in Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on December 29 2023 nbsp Destructions in Kharkiv Kharkiv Oblast on 2 January 2024 nbsp Damaged residential building in Kyiv on 2 January 2024Syria editMain articles Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and Russian Syrian hospital bombing campaign nbsp Russian aircraft drop firebombs in northern Aleppo in June 2016 On 30 September 2015 Russian military intervened directly in the Syrian Civil War on the side of the pro Russian government of Bashar al Assad According to Amnesty International in late February 2016 Russian warplanes deliberately targeted civilians and rescue workers during their bombing campaign 207 The human rights group has documented attacks on schools hospitals and civilian homes Amnesty International also said that Russia is guilty of some the most egregious war crimes it had seen in decades The director of Amnesty s crisis response program Tirana Hassan said that after bombing civilian targets the Russian warplanes loop around for a second attack to target the humanitarian workers and civilians who are trying to help those have been injured in the first sortie 207 In February 2016 Human Rights Watch HRW reported extensive use of cluster munitions by Syria and Russia in violation of United Nations resolution 2139 of 22 February 2014 which demanded that all parties end indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas HRW said that Russian or Syrian forces were responsible for the attacks and that the munitions were manufactured in the former Soviet Union or Russia and that some were of a type that had not been documented as used in Syria prior to Russia s involvement in the war which they claimed suggested that either Russian aircraft dropped them or Russian authorities recently provided the Syrian government with more cluster munitions or both 12 HRW also noted that while neither Russia nor Syria are parties to the Cluster Munitions Convention the use of such munitions contradicts statements issued by the Syrian government that they would refrain from using them 12 Russian indiscriminate bombings against civilians using banned cluster bombs or firebombing were often deemed as a violation of international law mostly during the battle of Aleppo 14 13 and siege of Eastern Ghouta 208 Several parallels were drawn between the 2016 destructions in Aleppo with those from Grozny in 2000 86 described by some as indicating a joint policy of take no prisoners 87 Between May and July 2019 heavy Russian bombardments killed 544 civilians in the assault on Idlib 209 On 22 July 2019 the Ma arrat al Numan market bombing killed 43 civilians 210 On 16 August 2019 Russian fighter jets perpetrated an airstrike on Hass refugee camp killing 20 civilians 211 212 On 6 March 2018 the United Nations Human Rights Council published a public report confirming that the Atarib market bombing was perpetrated by the Russian military A Russian fixed wing aircraft using unguided weapons including blast weapons were used against this location The report concluded that using such heavy weapons on densely populated civilian areas may amount to a war crime 213 214 On 2 February 2017 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR issued a report on the battle of Aleppo confirming that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons It concluded that their use on densely populated area in eastern Aleppo amounts to the use of an inherently indiscriminate weapon constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area 16 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that Russian air strikes and artillery shells have killed 18 000 people including nearly 8 000 civilians in Syria by 1 October 2018 215 Central African Republic editSee also Central African Republic Civil War On 27 October 2021 the UN experts of the Human Rights Council warned that Russia s paramilitary Wagner Group violently harassed and intimidated civilians including peacekeepers journalists aid workers and minorities in the Central African Republic It called on the government of the Central African Republic to sever all ties with the Wagner Group 216 217 Examples of crimes believed to have been committed by Wagner Group members in the Central African Republic include the Aigbado massacre 218 killing of 12 unarmed men near Bossangoa on 21 July 2021 and beating and holding suspected rebels in inhuman conditions in an open hole at a national army base in Alindao between June and August 2021 219 Mali editSee also Mali War In April 2022 Human Rights Watch HRW reported that Russian mercenaries believed to be members of the Wagner Group had committed atrocities against hundreds of civilians in Mali alongside members of the Malian Armed Forces According to the NGO Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project as many as 456 civilians died in nine incidents involving Malian forces and Wagner fighters between January and mid April 2022 The largest single atrocity was committed by Russian and Malian forces in the Moura massacre where around 300 civilian men were killed on 23 March 2022 220 221 222 Legal proceedings editRegional edit The Russian government denied accountability in its local courts While thousands of investigations were undertaken only one person was convicted for crimes against the Chechens in the Chechen wars Yuri Budanov convicted by a Russian court of kidnapping and murder of Elza Kungaeva and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003 223 which led Amnesty International to conclude that there is no accountability and that a Russian lack of prosecution has resulted in a climate of impunity 224 On 29 March 2005 Sergey Lapin was sentenced to 11 years for torture of Chechen student Zelimkhan Murdalov in police custody who disappeared since 225 In December 2007 Lt Yevgeny Khudyakov and Lt Sergei Arakcheyev were sentenced to 17 and 15 years for killing three Chechen construction workers near a Grozny checkpoint in January 2003 226 nbsp In 2022 former FSB employee Igor Strelkov was sentenced in absentia by a Dutch court to a life in prison for shooting down MH17 On 24 May 2018 after extensive comparative research the Dutch investigation concluded that the Buk that shot down the 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from the Russian 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile Brigade in Kursk 227 In a statement by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs of 5 July 2017 it was announced that several countries will prosecute any suspects identified in the downing of flight MH17 in the Netherlands and under Dutch law 228 A future treaty between the Netherlands and Ukraine will make it possible for the Netherlands to prosecute in the cases of all 298 victims regardless of their nationality This treaty was signed on 7 July 2017 229 On 19 June 2019 Dutch prosecutors charged four people over the deaths in the MH17 crash three Russians Igor Strelkov a former FSB employee Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov former GRU operatives and one Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko associated with the Donetsk People s Republic 230 231 232 On 17 November 2022 a Dutch court found Girkin Dubinsky and Kharchenko guilty and sentenced them in absentia to a life in prison 233 On 29 August 2003 a Dutch court Rechtbank s Gravenhage found that the Samashki massacre of 250 Chechen civilians was a crime against humanity 234 On 9 November 2021 Ukraine authorities arrested Denis Kulikovsky a senior warden of the Izoliatsiia detention center in Donetsk People s Republic where prisoners were tortured 235 nbsp Russian President Vladimir Putin who has ruled Russia since 2000 and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu are both accused of war crimes 236 On 15 March 2022 the United States Senate passed a resolution unanimously declaring Russia s leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal 237 In 2022 National parliaments including those of Poland Ukraine Canada Estonia Latvia Lithuania and the Republic of Ireland declared that a genocide was taking place in Ukraine 238 On 13 May 2022 Ukrainian authorities started their first war crimes trial involving the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine when Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin was indicted for killing an unarmed civilian in the Sumy Oblast He was sentenced to 15 years in prison 239 On 31 May a Kyiv court sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 1 2 years each for firing artillery on two villages in the Kharkiv Oblast 240 On 8 August 2022 Russian soldier Mikhailo Kulikov was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing from his tank at an apartment building on the outskirts of Chernihiv 241 On 29 September 2022 Russian Lieutenant Serhiy Steiner was sentenced in absentia to 9 years in prison by a Ukrainian court for looting and destruction of civilian property in the village of Lukyanivka 242 On 23 December 2022 a Ukrainian court sentenced four Russian soldiers to 11 years in prison for abducting and torturing three residents of Borova who formed an Anti Terrorist Unit 243 On 3 March 2023 a Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian pilot to 12 years in prison for dropping eight bombs on the Kharkiv TV and radio station 244 By December 2022 Ukraine identified more than 600 suspected war criminals from Russia including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu 245 International edit The Russian government tried to effectively block or prevent any kind of international prosecution of its role in suspected war crimes by an international court using its seat at the Security Council to veto resolutions which called for an investigation and bringing accountability of the downing the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Donetsk Oblast 246 and for crimes being committed in Syria 247 It denied that a chemical attack had taken place in Douma on 7 April 2018 but this was nonetheless confirmed in a report by the UN backed Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 248 On 7 April 2022 the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES 11 3 suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council due to war crimes in Ukraine 249 On 23 November 2022 the European Parliament designated Russia a state sponsor of terrorism declaring that its widespread military attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure hospitals schools and shelters violate international law and endanger Ukrainian civilians in winter 250 On 19 January 2023 the European Parliament also adopted a resolution recommending the establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute Putin and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko for war crimes 251 In its 2024 report on the siege of Mariupol Human Rights Watch published a list of 10 people who should be held responsible for war crimes due to their command responsibility 252 Vladimir Putin president of the Russia and commander in chief of the military Sergei Shoigu defense minister and military second in command Valery Gerasimov first deputy defense minister and chief of the general staff of the armed forces Sergei Rudskoy first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Alexander Dvornikov commander of the Southern Military District Viktor Zolotov commander in chief of the Russian National Guard Andrei Mordvichev commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army Ramzan Kadyrov head of the Chechen Republic and Chechen national guard forces Adam Delimkhanov commander of Chechen forces in Mariupol during the assault on the city Denis Pushilin head of the Donetsk People s Republic DNR separatist puppet state European Court of Human Rights edit See also Mikheyev v Russia Musayev Labazanova and Magomadov v Russia and Estamirov and Others v Russia Due to impunity for Russian soldiers in Russia hundreds of victims of abuse have filed applications with the European Court of Human Rights ECHR By 2009 the ECHR issued 115 verdicts including in Baysayeva v Russia case finding the Russian government guilty of enforced disappearances extrajudicial executions torture and for failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya 20 On 21 January 2021 the ECHR also separately found Russia guilty of murder torture looting and destruction of homes in Georgia as well as preventing the return of 20 000 displaced Georgians to their territory 21 22 23 International Criminal Court edit See also International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine nbsp International Criminal Court building in The Hague When the International Criminal Court ICC started to investigate Russia s annexation of Crimea for possible violations of international law Russia withdrew its membership on 16 November 2016 26 Nonetheless in its preliminary 2017 report the ICC found that the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol would amount to an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation as well that it factually amounts to an ongoing state of occupation 253 It further found that there is credible evidence that at least 10 people have disappeared and are believed to have been killed on Crimea for opposing the change of its status 254 In January 2016 the ICC also opened an investigation into possible war crimes perpetrated during the 2008 Russo Georgian War 255 On 28 February 2022 the ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan announced that he will launch an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine 256 On 17 March 2023 the ICC issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Russia s Commissioner for Children s Rights Maria Lvova Belova for war crimes of deportation and illegal transfer of civilians children from occupied Ukraine to Russia 257 Human Rights Watch welcomed the indictment saying it advances justice 258 Amnesty International also lauded ICC s decision recommending that the indictment should be expanded to include many other war crimes as well 259 On 5 March 2024 the ICC indicted Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash Commander of Russian Aerospace Forces and Admiral Viktor Sokolov Commander of the Black Sea Fleet for war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated through attacks at civilian objects causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects and inhumane acts during the attacks against Ukrainian electric infrastructure from October 2022 through March 2023 260 261 US President Joe Biden allowed the US to cooperate with the ICC in sharing evidence of Russian war crimes 262 International Court of Justice edit See also Ukraine v Russian Federation 2022 Ukraine brought a case before the International Court of Justice ICJ against Russia On 16 March 2022 a ruling was reached and the ICJ ordered Russia to immediately suspend the military operations in Ukraine 263 International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine edit Main article International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine On 4 March 2022 the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 32 in favour versus 2 against and 13 absentions to create the International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine an independent international 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