Recognizing and Documenting War Crimes

International organizations are working in Ukraine to document each Russian war crime, aside from the general war crime of agression of attacking Ukraine on 24 February of 2022 and maintaining this criminal attack since then.

Ukraine has documented more than 100.000 Russian war crimes as of October 2023.

A list of major Russian war crimes in Ukraine was compiled for Wikipedia in 22 languages. English.


The United Nations recognized Russian war crimes in Ukraine:

UN Findings on Russian War Crimes in Ukraine

UN Reporting on War Crimes in Ukraine


General prosecutor of Ukraine

On 27 July 2022, Andriy Kostin[note] was voted by Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, as the new Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

Andriy Kostin

Before Mr. Kostin Irina Vendiktova held the office of the general prosecutor of Ukraine.

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