War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine information
War crimes in Ukraine
This article is about war crimes during the Russian invasion. For investigation and prosecution of the war crimes, see International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine. For the legality of the invasion itself in international law, see Legality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the case brought by Ukraine before the International Court of Justice, see Ukraine v. Russian Federation (2022).
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
Northern Ukraine campaign
Antonov Airport
Chernobyl
Hostomel
Ivankiv
Kyiv
Kyiv strikes
shopping centre bombing
Russian Kyiv convoy
Bucha
massacre
Irpin
refugee column shelling
Makariv
Moshchun
Brovary
Slavutych
Borodianka
Hlukhiv
Konotop
Sumy
ammonia leak
Trostianets
Chernihiv
Chernihiv strikes
3 March 2022 bombing
16 March 2022 breadline attack
August 2023 missile strike
April 2024 missile strike
Okhtyrka
Lebedyn
Northern Ukraine skirmishes
Desna
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Marinka
Avdiivka
Mariupol
hospital airstrike
theatre airstrike
art school bombing
Kharkiv
Kharkiv strikes
February cluster bombing
government building airstrike
March cluster bombing
April cluster bombing
dormitories missile strike
Chuhuiv Air Base
Volnovakha
massacre
Izium
massacre
Stara Krasnianka
Donetsk
March 2022 attack
June 2022 attack
September 2022 attack
2024 attack
Rubizhne
Popasna
Kramatorsk
railway station attack
restaurant attack
Battle of Donbas
Kreminna
Siverskyi Donets
school bombing
Sievierodonetsk
Toshkivka
1st Lyman
Sviatohirsk
Lysychansk
2024 missile strike
Chasiv Yar strike
Pisky
Olenivka massacre
Bakhmut
Soledar
Vuhledar
Makiivka
Kharkiv counteroffensive
Balakliia
Kupiansk
civilian convoy shelling
2nd Lyman
Luhansk Oblast campaign
Lyman cluster bombing
Kostiantynivka
Hroza
Chasiv Yar
Southern Ukraine campaign
Kherson
Kherson strikes
Melitopol
Mykolaiv
bombing
7 March 2022 military quarters attack
cluster bombing
18 March 2022 military quarters attack
government building airstrike
Chornobaivka
Enerhodar
Zaporizhzhia NPP
1st and 2nd Voznesensk
Huliaipole
Orikhiv
Davydiv Brid
Crimea
Novofedorivka
1st Crimean Bridge
1st Sevastopol Naval Base
2nd Crimean Bridge
2nd Sevastopol Naval Base
Kherson counteroffensive
Prelude
Nova Kakhovka
Liberation of Kherson
Dnieper
Kakhovka Dam
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
Zarichne
Other regions
Zaporizhzhia
civilian convoy attack
residential building airstrike
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kryvyi Rih
Lviv
Odesa
6 March 2024 strike
Zhytomyr
Rivne
Vinnytsia
Dnipro
2023 residential building airstrike
Yavoriv
Khmelnytskyi
Kremenchuk
Serhiivka
Chaplyne
Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Sloviansk
Uman
Pokrovsk
2023 missile strike
2024 missile strike
29 December 2023 strikes
22 March 2024 strikes
Naval operations
Snake Island
Berdiansk
Moskva
Tendra Spit
Spillover and cross-border incidents
Western Russia
Millerovo
Dyagilevo and Engels air bases
Bryansk Oblast
Belgorod Oblast incursion
30 December 2023 Belgorod shelling
February 2024 Belgorod missile strike
2024 western Russia incursion
Moscow
Kremlin drone attack
May 2023 drone strikes
Transnistria
Poland
Przewodów
Belarus
Machulishchy
Resistance
Ukrainian resistance
Belarusian–Russian anti-war resistance
rail war in Belarus
rail war in Russia
Russian commissariat attacks
Ust-Ilimsk shooting
St. Petersburg cafe bombing
General topics
War crimes
Economic impact
Peace negotiations
Collaboration with Russia
Russian emigration
Attacks on civilians
Nuclear risk
Humanitarian impacts
Russian annexation
Treatment of prisoners of war
Timeline
24 Feb – 7 Apr 2022
8 Apr – 28 Aug 2022
29 Aug – 11 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – 7 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – 31 Aug 2023
1 Sep – 30 Nov 2023
1 Dec 2023 – present
Related
Zagreb Tu-141 crash
Russian mystery fires
Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Soloti training ground shooting
2022 Russian mobilization
2022 Russian martial law
2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
2022 Russian Far East protests
Zeitenwende speech
Lady R incident
Brovary helicopter crash
Black Sea drone incident
Belgorod accidental bombing
Wagner Group rebellion
Wagner Group plane crash
Synytsia
Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash
Skadovsk polling center bombing
June 2024 Ukraine peace conference
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Russo-Ukrainian War (outline)
Background
Novorossiya
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Russia–Ukraine relations
Budapest Memorandum
2003 Tuzla Island conflict
Orange Revolution
2007 Munich speech of Vladimir Putin
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
Euromaidan
Revolution of Dignity
Crimea
Annexation
Timeline
Little green men
Krymnash
Crimean Parliament
Belbek Airport
Southern Naval Base
2014 Simferopol
2014 Russian protests
Major topics
2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism
Information war
cyberwarfare
ransomware
cyberattacks
Belarusian involvement
International sanctions
Media portrayal
Foreign aid (military
humanitarian)
War in Donbas
Timeline
Capture of Donetsk
Sloviansk
Kramatorsk
Artemivsk
Mariupol
Sievierodonetsk
Il-76 shootdown
Zelenopillia rocket attack
Karlivka
1st Donetsk Airport
Luhansk Border Base
Krasnyi Lyman
Sector D clashes
Great Raid of 2014
Shakhtarsk Raion
Horlivka
Yasynuvata
Ilovaisk
Novoazovsk
2nd Mariupol
2nd Donetsk Airport
Debaltseve
International recognition
Post-Minsk II conflict
2015
Shyrokyne (2015)
Marinka (2015)
2016
Svitlodarsk (2016)
2017
Avdiivka (2017)
2018
Kerch Strait incident (2018)
2019
2020
2021
2022
Attacks on civilians
Sloviansk
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Novosvitlivka
Volnovakha
Donetsk
Mariupol
Kramatorsk
Stanytsia Luhanska
Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present) (Timeline)
Prelude to invasion (Reactions)
Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Northern Ukraine campaign
Hostomel
Kyiv
Chernihiv
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Avdiivka
Mariupol
Kharkiv
Izium
Battle of Donbas
Sievierodonetsk
Lysychansk
Bakhmut
Kharkiv counteroffensive
Vuhledar
Southern Ukraine campaign
1st Kherson
Melitopol
Mykolaiv
Voznesensk
Kherson counteroffensive
2nd Kherson
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
Effects and aftermath
Economic impact
Peace negotiations
Protests in occupied Ukraine
War crimes
Government and intergovernmental reactions
Non-government reactions
Protests
Russian protests
ICJ case
Arrest warrants
Related
Zagreb Tu-141 crash
Russian mystery fires
Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Soloti training ground shooting
Brovary helicopter crash
Black Sea drone incident
Belgorod accidental bombing
Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes
Wagner Group rebellion
Wagner Group plane crash
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets (including strikes on hospitals and on the energy grid);[1][2] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas (including with cluser bombs); abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence; destruction of cultural heritage; and mistreatment, torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war.[3][4][5][6]
On 2 March 2023, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a full investigation into past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide committed in Ukraine by any person from 21 November 2013 onwards, set up an online method for people with evidence to initiate contact with investigators, and sent a team of investigators, lawyers, and other professionals to Ukraine to begin collecting evidence.[7][8] Two other independent international agencies are also investigating violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law in the area: the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 4 March 2022, and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, deployed by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The latter started monitoring human rights violations by all parties in 2014 and employs nearly 60 UN human rights monitors. On 7 April 2022, the United Nations suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.[9] By late October, the Ukrainian Prosecutor's office had documented 39,347 alleged Russian war crimes, identified more than 600 suspects, and initiated proceedings against approximately 80 of them.[10]
On 17 March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova over allegations of involvement in the war crime of child abductions during the invasion of Ukraine.[11][12]
^"Chernihiv: Are these Russia's weapons of war?". BBC News. 9 April 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
Gall, Carlotta; Kramer, Andrew E. (3 April 2022). "In a Kyiv Suburb,'They Shot Everyone They Saw'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
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^Cumming-Bruce, Nick (23 September 2022). "U.N. Experts find that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022.
Macias, Amanda (28 October 2022). "UN report details horrifying Ukrainian accounts of rape, torture and executions by Russian troops". CNBC. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
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^"ICC prosecutor: Team leaves to investigate war crimes in Ukraine". Reuters. 3 March 2022. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
"Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan QC, on the Situation in Ukraine: Additional Referrals from Japan and North Macedonia; Contact portal launched for provision of information". International Criminal Court. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^"Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan QC, on the Situation in Ukraine: "I have decided to proceed with opening an investigation."". www.icc-cpi.int. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^Cite error: The named reference Nichols-2022-04-07 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Egan, Lauren (31 May 2022). "She was sure her son's death was a war crime. But the investigation is more painful than she expected". NBC News.
^Radford, Antoinette (17 March 2023). "Putin arrest warrant issued over war crime allegations". BBC News. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^"Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova". International Criminal Court. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
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