The Prosecutor General's Office has sent to court a case alleging genocide of the populations of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) by Kyiv
MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has approved the indictment and sent to court a criminal case alleging genocide of the populations of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) since 2014. The case involves 41 individuals from among Ukraine's political and military leadership, the press service of the Russian prosecutor general's office reported.
"The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has approved the indictment in a criminal case against the highest political and military leadership of Ukraine," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
Charges in absentia have been brought against 41 individuals from among Ukraine's former and current political and military leaders. Charges have been brought against Arsen Avakov (included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of persons involved in extremist activity or terrorism), Ivan Bakanov, Andriy Bohdan, Yegor Bozhok, Vladislav Bukharev, Viktor Gvozd, Oleksiy Goncharuk, Vasyl Hrytsak, Volodymyr Groysman, Oleksiy Danilov, Oleksandr Danilyuk, Valery Evdokimov, Andriy Yermak, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Valery Zaluzhny, Oleh Ivaschenko, Igor Klimenko, Mikhail Koval, Valery Kondratyuk, Vasyl Krutov, Mikhail Kutsin, Nikolay Litvin, Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Lozhkin, Vasyl Malyuk, Denis Monastyrsky, Viktor Muzhenko, Sergey Nayev, Valentin Nalyvaichenko, Andriy Parubiy, Sergey Pashinsky, Stepan Poltorak, Petro Poroshenko (listed by Rosfinmonitoring as individuals involved in extremist activity or terrorism), Igor Rainin, Oleksandr Syrsky, Andriy Taran, Oleksandr Turchynov, Rustem Umerov, Ruslan Khomchak, Denys Shmygal, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
"They are charged in absentia under Article 357 of the Russian Criminal Code (genocide)," the Prosecutor General's Office noted. All of them have been placed on the international wanted list, and Moscow's Basmanny Court has ordered their pretrial detention in absentia.
"All investigative actions possible in the absence of the accused have been completed in the criminal case. The criminal case has been sent to the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic for consideration," the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported.
Case Files
According to the investigation, from April 2014 to the present, the accused and other officials, while on Ukrainian territory, "gave orders to subordinate Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and other armed formations to use firearms, armored vehicles, combat aircraft, missiles, and artillery against civilians with the intent of committing genocide against the population of the DPR and LPR."
The Prosecutor General's Office noted that "as a result of Ukrainian punitive operations, nearly 5,000 civilians were killed, more than 18,500 were injured, and over 13,500 were wounded, including 1,275 minors." In addition, over 153,000 civilian infrastructure facilities were partially or completely destroyed, including approximately 138,000 residential buildings, 1,565 educational and 847 medical organizations and institutions, 1,403 social facilities, manufacturing and commercial enterprises, at least 11,400 vital infrastructure and public utilities, 505 cultural institutions and sports facilities, and 205 religious buildings. "As a result, the economy suffered serious damage, and key elements of the culture, religion, and traditions of the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics were suppressed," the criminal case file states.
Furthermore, industrial facilities, including city-forming enterprises, were shut down, leading to increased unemployment and a decline in incomes.
"More than 2.3 million civilians were forced to leave their permanent places of residence. From 2014 until the reunification of the DPR and LPR with Russia, the population declined from 6.5 million to 4.5 million due to displacement, declining birth rates, and increasing mortality," the Prosecutor General's Office noted, citing criminal case materials.
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