In six months of conflict, nearly 30,000 war crimes have been reported in Ukraine, according to authorities. The International Criminal Court is investigating.
Eleven coffins lined up, in front of a freshly dug grave, and inside, strangers. This August 11 funeral will not be the only one in Boutcha. The Ukrainian city has become the symbol of the abuses committed by the Russian army. Here, near Kyiv, hundreds of corpses were found in mass graves, when the brutality of the fighting made it impossible to bury them otherwise.
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Father Andriy, accompanied by other civilians, organized a burial for them since no one claimed the bodies: "419 people were killed by bombardments, died because of the violence and not of old age. There were several graves communes. The largest was next to the church. This tomb contained 116 people, including 30 women, and two children".
Nearly 30,000 alleged war crimes
Bombing of civilians, summary executions, rapes: six months to the day after the start of the Russian invasion, 29,942 alleged war crimes have been recorded by the Ukrainian authorities, according to the War Crimes website.
Moscow systematically denies all the abuses of which its troops are accused. Three Russian soldiers have already been convicted by a Ukrainian court for bombing and killing civilians.
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In total, since the beginning of the war and until August 7, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded 12,867 civilian victims of the war in Ukraine. Among them, 5,401 people, including 325 children, were killed and 7,466 others, including 580 children, were injured.