A total of 13,838 civilians have already died in Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion on a large scale, and 596 were children. The count is from the Office of the Prosecutor General, that is, the general prosecutor’s office of Ukraine, last renewed last week within the framework of an active report on “crimes committed in the context of the armed conflict.” The accounting that is followed under that title in the kyiv public ministry includes: 27,107 civilians injured1,734 of them minors.
The Bucha street executions and the Mariupol bombings that shocked the public in the West are already a drop in the report. The annotation of crimes derived from Russian aggression shows at this point a balance of 172,154 caseswhich the Ukrainian authorities consider strict war crime at 152,012. Of the total amount, 20,142 have to do with acts of betrayal and other forms of attacks against the security of the State.
Tan high civilian mortality In a war that is about to turn three years old, it is the result of the recurrence and persistence of armed attacks against civilian targets, which this Wednesday intensified with Russia’s sending of 40 missiles and drones against, mainly, energy installations. “The attacks on civilian targets account for more than 80% of those carried out by Russia”, government sources tell this newspaper Zelensky in Spain, related to this statistical elaboration.
Rape and minors
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has noted 335 crimes of a sexual natureof which In 16 cases the victim is a girl and in one case it is a child. Only five sex offenders have been imprisoned. Thirty-eight are being prosecuted and 59 have been identified as rapists in search and capture.
In this especially dark corner of war crime there is a quantitative gender difference: the Ukrainian civil prosecution has documentation of 215 attacks against womenthe majority, and another 120 who have men as victims.
The places where these attacks against the integrity and dignity of people were committed coincide with the areas that have been subject to occupation in the east and south of the country. The Ukrainian authorities do not make estimates on how this specific quantification of sexual violence could be raised if the more than 19,000 Ukrainian minors who – due to the invasion of their towns, death, loss at the front, non-appearance or imprisonment of their parents by the Russian military authority – have ended up being forcibly transferred to Russian territory.
A mother with her baby in the basement of a hospital in kyiv. / Roman Pilipey EFE
This other penal field, that of minors, is especially numerous in the count. There are open ones in Ukraine 4,064 proceedings for crimes against childrenand only 31 criminals imprisoned, 44 under accusation and 55 wanted and captured. They are already 1,409 acts against children that are considered war crimesof which 55 are confinements, captures or illegal deprivations of liberty. Schools, daycares and other types of premises and institutions for the use of minors have been attacked on 2,415 occasions.
Prohibited weapons
In the segment of attacks on civil infrastructure, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine already has 200,307 targets destroyed. The majority, 160,584, are homes. There are 25,842 offices and businesses, and 8,344 were communications facilities or networks.
Las Russian offensives against power generation plants They have become endemic to this war. Since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, the invasion forces have been designated 232 targets, which have already accumulated 662 attacksthe vast majority of them aerial.
This strategy became widespread in April 2023. Since then, 176 of these objectives have been located and attacked by the Russian army.
The statistics of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office also highlight attacks on health (645), educational (3,770), cultural (645) and religious (205) facilities.
Russian soldiers secure the ruins of the Mariupol Drama Theater. / EFE Sergei Ilnitsky
In this type of demolition attacks on civilian property, according to the Ukrainian authority, four cases of use of thermobaric pumps and six of incendiary projectiles. These are two of the four categories involved in 3,204 reported acts of prohibited weapons. There are 62 open cases for the use of chemical weapons. Most cases are due to the dispersal of mines and anti-personnel explosive traps.
Demining Ukraine is one of the most arduous tasks on the country’s horizon when a ceasefire is reached.
The aggression
For a scenario of peace in which Ukraine could go to foreign justice to complain about violations of International Humanitarian Lawthe Ukrainian Attorney General has a list of 748 suspects of mistreatment of prisoners of war, cruelty towards the civilian population, kidnapping or damage to the environment, among other criminal figures.
This field of the accusation links to the so-called “Main Cause”. It is the summary opened by the mere fact of the invasion by forces of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian justice has been marked in default a list of 732 military and political leaders of the Kremlinheads of the Rosvgvardiya (or Russian Guard) and the Russian Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs.
The largest group of defendants is the deputies of the Russian State Duma. There are three heads of spy agencies on the list, 35 generals (at the head, Sergei Shoiguwho was Minister of Defense until last May), ten Kremlin propagandists and 12 scientists and university rectors.
