On Monday November 28th, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that they have initiated a criminal investigation of war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
RT has published a summary of the SK statement and the interviews of the attorneys and legal experts involved in this investigation.
The Investigative Committee has established that from September to November 2016, the Ukrainian military and employees of the National guard carried out a “targeted shelling with heavy weapons of the civilian infrastructures” (part 1 of article 356 of the Russia criminal code). The victims of the attack were two men and more than 20 were injured. Ukrainian shells damaged and destroyed more than 100 homes and residential buildings.
SK (Investigative Committee) disclosed the names, ranks and titles of the suspects, indicating each military unit involved. The Agency also found that 25 Jun 2016, Kominternovo village was shelled by the 36th Detached Coastal Defense Marine Brigade of Naval forces of Ukraine. “The result of this shelling was a damaged power lines and two small children died after being electrocuted by the fallen wires,” — stated in the message of the Investigative Committee.
The Agency opened a criminal case against the commanders of the military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “In addition, in absentia, the charges have been filed against the commander of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Gorbatyuk, who organized and directed the conduct of the precision artillery shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, in which a local resident received shrapnel wounds”, — noted by the SK.
In practice, the armed forces servicemen can easily define what constitutes a “knowingly criminal command,” said the expert of Association of military political scientists, head of the Department of political science and sociology of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics professor Andrey Koshkin: “The criminal command is the use of regular troops against the civilian population. I suspect that this fact lies at the basis of this wording. It’s a war crime to destroy the civilian population on the orders of the superiors.”
The military and international law experts interviewed by the RT also highlighted the necessity to use the European and American experience in conducting tribunal against Yugoslavia.
“In the case of the Donbass, from the point of view of international law, it makes sense to organize the trial against the political regime itself,” says a military lawyer Vladimir Trygnin: “Interpol is involved in tracing individuals, but here we are talking about the responsibility of government officials and the high ranking military officials.” In his opinion, it will be the prerogative of an International Tribunal, that would use the example of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, where the accused were not only the government officials and also the commanders of illegal armed groups.”
“Professor Andrei Koshkin explained that, by analogy with the ICTY, this new tribunal might take legal actions not only against the Ukrainian officials and armed forces officers, but also against the commanders of the militia armed formation of the Donetsk republics. However, as the expert noted, this new international legal entity will focus on the crimes against the civilian population. In this case, Russia will have all the aces in her hands.”
The military attorney, Vladimir Trignin reminded that the Russian legislation allows Russian security services to conduct counter-terrorist activities outside state borders. “It means that if any person violate the rights of Russian citizens, including citizens of the Russian Federation outside of territory of the Russian Federation, such operation may be conducted, and the individuals in the framework of this event under the laws of the Russian Federation may be arrested”, — concluded the lawyer.
In SK press release as following:
The SK initiated the criminal investigation of the Ukraine armed forces and law enforcement involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity
The SK of Russian Federation initiated criminal cases involving the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare based on previously unknown facts of the Ukrainian military shelling of civilians.
How far this investigation will go?
In January 2015, President Putin said: “The Ukrainian military is a NATO foreign legion. This NATO Foreign Legion isn’t interested in defending the national interests of Ukraine. Instead, these armed forces are pursuing of geo-political aim of containment of Russia. This aim is absolutely different from the real national interests of the Ukrainian people.”
Who occupies Ukraine?
[1:50] Video shows the US & Ichkeria terrorists flags over the Ukraine armed formation in Gorlovka
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I’ve been a suggesting this for quite some time!
I don’t know how this could be compared to the ICTY, whose soul purpose is to legitimize illegal zionazi NATO aggression against Serbian people?
If Russia falls for this bait of internationalizing an extension of the agression said above against Russian people, it stands no chance of gaining anything useful – just as with all the “international” agreements it blindly followed while her “partners” were following their own agendas and laughing out loud.
Ergo, (zio)nazis can be dealt with in only one way. I hope those who decide on these matters are in control of the situation.
Sokenekos
What the Russian government is doing here is using the legal precedent, established by the Western countries, AGAINST them.
As the Russian expression goes: “to use their own weapon against them.” Or… “to beat them at their own game.”
We all know that in essence the ICTY was a crime conducted by the US and EU members against Yugoslavia. But the legal framework for the ICTY has been accepted by the UN members without any reservation.
Russian government and law enforcement are going to put this framework to use and to conduct tribunal over the Kiev junta that would allow Russia to dismantle the junta and to liberate the people living in Ukraine from its tyranny.
Just what the Western allies had done to Yugoslavia.
OK Scott if you say so. But I wouldn’t share your optimism. Zionazis were all but stupid when they embarked on this criminal Enterprise.
It might b the case that Russia feels strong enough to carry on such a process, but requires cooperation of its “partners,” which it won’t get – I am positive!
I wouldn’t take swapping legitimization of the IGTY Inquisition for a doubtful outcome of this process as the winning strategy against the zionazi scum. But, what do I know… Time will tell.
This will be interesting as time progresses. We were aware of this move being afoot some time ago as we still get some of the wounded, both NAF and civilian, down here for treatment and convalescence.
If this investigative deal does, indeed, become real the ‘other side’ will scream bloody murder and blame NAF for most, if not all, of the civilian casualties. After all, OSCE has often blamed NAF for shooting at themselves in their reports although they generally say ‘it was impossible to determine where the rounds came from or what they are’. This whilst empty Grad missile bodies are lying on the ground or stuck in flats buildings where there is zero military within kilometers of the buildings. Some of these bodies it is patently obvious contained cluster munitions, a child can ascertain that simply by looking at them from 10 meters away. And what about the white phosfor Kiev has been using since May of ’14?
Since May of ’14 Kiev Army has been bombarding patently civilian areas, paying particular attention to living areas, magazines and kiosks, petrol stations and infrastructure, mainly electric, water and natural gas system. To this day not one word has broken the pristine silence from EU, USA, Canada, Japan and Australia about this wanton and deliberate destruction and the deaths of literally several thousands of innocent civilians and the wounding of many thousands more.
To quote a friend:
“As for Merkel, Obama, Golland, Kerry, Clinton et al, ALL of you who are involved in and responsible for this war against innocents:
Damn your eyes, damn your souls, back to Hell where you came from.”
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When a State makes the legal preparations to arrest and try criminals it is obvious that the State expects to have the power to dispense Justice.
Thus, it seems, “Comrade Ivan” sees Victory.
Very Logical. Bravo!
It has long been clear that the Russian State would follow the legal forms, and nothing less. Trials were obviously coming long ago.
Excellent news indeed! Just as with that Zionazi Tourette tic of “Russia’s-illegal-annexation-of-Crimea”, this too will give rise to some quite ‘funny noises’ based on rock-solid, very real pain and anger on the part of The International Community. Can barely contain my Schadenfreude and anticipation!
Doubt we will ever see the rotten to the core leaders of EU and USA in the International Court.
Seems courts simply exist to uphold the power of the few over the many.
The industrial warmongers are not done by a longshot. It will need very creative moves and shakings to avert war on the world stage.
That’s a great news about Erdagon’s disclosure of his true intentions in Syria. He wants to remove President Assad from power. That’s a bombshell.
Hopefully Putin take a notice. If he already knows that, so the politics for the masses, getting more complicated to know who is for what in Syria.
Jewish U.S. Congress have passed the HR 5732 to escalate the war. They stay the same course.
Relentless push regardless of the change of gourd in WH. Trump will show his true face too like Erdagan. Count on it.
@ Steve
Fully agree with you, Whoever sits in the Whore House will do as all previous residents have done: mass murder to make Yankland “great”. They compete against each other to be the greatest killer and that wins elections. Mark my words.
H.R. 5732 sponsored by Eliot Engel
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/engel.html
Zion never rests. Know the enemy of humanity.
This bill calls for a No Fly Zone of Syria to protect Kitten Sanctuaries, I mean civilians from terror. Fn hypocrites and Evil people.
Big news:
Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad’s rule
Who knew?
Bingo! Just as I was saying: the absurdity getting absurd!
“Guilty by Association: Politicians call for Berlin to put sanctions on Russia over Aleppo
The head of Germany’s foreign affairs committee has called for Berlin and the EU to impose sanctions against Russia over its alleged war crimes in Syria.”
???
https://youtu.be/hrsmhFruHgE
Perhaps Russia’s idea of a war crime tribunal would be more applicable / successful for Syria. The enemy has no means to deny the obvious unlike in Ukraine.
We really are down the rabbit hole when saving 80,000 civilians, and liquidating their captors is called a war crime. Perhaps Germany has still not really understood what war crimes are? Given their alacrity in joining the Anglo-Zionist reconstituted Fourth Reich I see another trip to Stalingrad in their future.
I would like to see them trying – to give Russia the opportunity to end the Nato aggression once and for all.
The new class of politicians beating their breasts displaying simian bravado are a contemptible lot who deserve derisive sneers but they poison the minds of the people and should be treated as war criminals the same way the Nazis were. Joseph Goebbels did not kill or ordered to kill anyone, yet he knew he would end up dangling at the end of a rope if taken prisoner. Somehow, some of the Nazis were men of a mettle far superior to the bawling creeps crawling in today’s corridors of power. Phew!
The ICTY like Tribunal is interesting development to be implemented but I would recommend a much wider Tribunal beginning with the period of the fall of SU, trough the Yugoslavian war and Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. There would be big faces to fall, that would be the beginning of Justice.
I believe that the phrase uttered by Henry Kissinger, which, along with the PNAC document, now informs all Anglo-Zionist Empire policy: “The Chief task of the USA is now the depopulation of the Third World.”
should have us make an exception in Henry’s case and broaden the scope of the war crimes trials.
@ Ioan
“There would be big faces to fall, that would be the beginning of Justice.”
Why not big heads to roll? A la Robespierre. One feels almost nostalgic about the romantic revolutionaries who decapitated the plutocracy of the day at the Place de la Revolution. Perhaps the world would be more humane if the parasites were removed from the body of humanity, squashed like lice.
And why shouldn’t Russia investigate war crimes–including war crimes by the American “advisors”–in Ukraine? America seems to think that the entire world is its jurisdiction. After Ukraine, a lot of attention should be given to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria as major crime scenes by the American military, its covert forces and its government officials who ordered the criminal acts. Maybe Cuba should press charges for the crimes against humanity that the American regime commits daily on Cuban soil.
Psychopaths think that ‘the entire world is [their] jurisdiction’.
@ Shrimp
You are right. But you see, Justice is not blind, as she is shown in statues. She sneakily removes the blindfolds when she passes sentence at the local court or at the ICJ, or at the had hoc tribunals set up by the victors of wars and international mass murderers a.k.a. the Exceptional Nation and its Nato vassals.
The worst war crimes ever committed (firebombing of Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo, atomic incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) stand as proof that the evil mass murderers, not only go unpunished, but are even honoured as great statesmen. What a sick world!
By Paul Craig Roberts
News From The Breakaway Republics
November 29, 2016
This has come to me from the independent Donbass region. The Western media provides nothing but disinformation about this area of the world as part of the ongoing demonization of Russia.
I am surprised that Russian intelligence did not discover in advance the Obama regime’s coup against the Ukrainian government. I continue to believe that the Russian government made a mistake refusing the breakaway republics requests to be re-incorporated into Russia like Crimea, but I understand that Putin was counting on his refusal to calm the fear of a “revanchist Russia” that Washington was infusing into Europeans. Putin’s strategy made sense, but it failed because Europe hasn’t the capability of foreign policy independence. Western Europe did not lose its independence to Nazi Germany. Europe lost its independence to Washington. It was the US that defeated Europe and reduced Europe to vassal states of Washington’s empire.
The links provided by Chopov will give you English language reports from that part of the world where Washington, enabled by the EU, continues to provoke violence against Russian people…….
Anon – as per the Saker’s moderation policy. Please can you not post large sections from other websites and just add the link with a small introduction so that other commenters may visit the site if they wish to do so. You have not provided a link to the PCR article. Mod
I would also like to see the investigation extended to the Harper Government of Canada.
They let their embassy be used as a command center for the overthrow of the legitimate government of the Ukraine and provided persons unknown with a shipment of unrifled (smooth bore) firearms of the type used on the Maidan to shoot both protestors and police in the final hours of the CIA/USSD directed coup.
Several Canadian newspapers covered the claims, though in a confused fashion. The matter was then hushed up ‘in the interests of National security.
True Franz, but the Harper gov’t also permitted/abetted shipments of hunting (sniper) rifles to “private individuals” in Ukraine, and these were most probably the ones in the hands of those who murdered both protesters and police at the Maidan. Smooth-bore weapons are generally for “nonlethal” anti-riot applications, like plastic baton/tear-gas rounds.
It was hoped that the Trudeau gov’t would be more rational, given Justin’s electioneering promise to remove the six CF-18’s from bombing Libya and Iraq… so he sent them to… Romania. Just like Harper…
So Canada now has the same ruling duopoly problem as the US. Trudeau has carried on all of Harper’s policies (2 pipelines approved, the one pipeline refused was already abandoned by Harper because the US didn’t want China, a major financial backer of Northern Gateway, to have direct export access for China’s Cdn Tar Crap installations). Supporting all the same US-proxy trade agreements, selling the Saudi’s war vehicles, “training” Kiev junta soldiers, just to name a few.
http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/operations/update.page
Trudeau didn’t even have the balls to go to Castro’s funeral…
Prime Minister Hairdo just proved, if more proof were needed, that he is not the son of Pierre.
As for the smoothbore… it appears that the criminals did not want to take chances with forensics tracing the guns (rounds) to anyone.
Here is some telling information about those guns: https://histoireetsociete.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/estonia-confirms-authenticity-of-paet-ashton-conversation-on-kiev-snipers/
What is missing from the account above is:
1. Paet does not think to say that the rounds were all showing signs of being fired by unrifled (smoothbore) firearms, though others have reported the doctor in question saying just that.
2. Ashton, after feigning concern (see transcript), did no further investigating whatsoever.
This is an old video published on Jul 21, 2016… by News Flashbang Show
But worth a revisit — a timely reminder of the BS coming out of Ukraine that blames VV Putin for ‘everything’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezp5X2CWH7s
This all seems like a good pretext for what Russia intends to do.
I think they’re gonna purge the borderlands.