The EU leadership has said that an international tribunal for Russian war crimes must be formed following the discovery of new mass graves in Ukraine earlier this week.
Such strikes against civilian populations are inconceivable and reprehensible in the 21st century, according to Jan Lipavsky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
‘We must not overlook it. We support the execution of all war criminals… He proclaimed, “I urge for the swift establishment of a special international tribunal that will convict aggression.”
Following the discovery of over 450 burials near the recently liberated city of Izyum in the eastern Kharkiv area of Ukraine, the plea was issued.
Several of the recovered remains exhibited evidence of torture, and officials have unearthed other structures that appear to have been used as torture chambers by Russian military and FSB agents.
More than ten torture rooms have already been discovered in liberated cities and towns in the Kharkiv region, said Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky last night in reference to the discovery of electrical torture devices.
That is exactly what the Nazis did. This is the behavior of Ruscists. ‘They will be held accountable in the same manner on the battlefield and in the trial,’ he promised.
As its forces evacuate the Kharkiv region, Moscow has stepped up its rocket attacks on civilian facilities, according to a British Ministry of Defense (MoD) intelligence update.
On September 16, 2022, forensic technicians excavate a burial in a woodland on the outskirts of Izyum, eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials discovered 450 additional graves in a single cemetery near Izyum after recapturing the city from the Russians over the weekend.
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky of the Czech Republic has called for an international tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine. He stated, “In the 21st century, such attacks against civilians are unthinkable and repugnant.”
On September 17, 2022, flimsy wooden crosses are visible at a wooded cemetery on the outskirts of Izyum.
Zelensky paid an unannounced visit to Izyum in the Kharkiv region after the city was retaken and viewed the destruction left by the departing Russian soldiers.
This photograph was shot on September 14, 2022 in the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine. It depicts a wrecked Russian tank and armored personnel carriers.
Oleg Synegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, stated Monday that “99 percent of unearthed bodies exhibited symptoms of a violent death.”
Synegubov told Telegram users that numerous bodies had their wrists tied behind their backs, and one individual was buried with a rope over his neck.
This number has not been confirmed, but the human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that there were “possibly more than 1,000 Ukrainian civilians tortured and murdered in the freed lands of the Kharkiv region.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the mass graves were likely additional proof that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, while French President Emmanuel Macron branded the events in Izyum as ‘atrocities.’
The United Nations in Geneva has stated that it hopes to send a team to investigate the deaths, similar to what it did around five months ago after the Russian army was driven out of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, leaving behind hundreds of civilian corpses.
EU leader Ursula von der Leyen revealed earlier this week that she wished for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be brought before the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine.
The British Ministry of Defense asserted in its most recent intelligence assessment that Russia had boosted rocket assaults on civilian facilities over the past week, perhaps in an effort to damage the morale of Ukrainian residents and local administrations as Putin’s soldiers withdraw from Kharkiv.
Since 24 February 2022, Russia has fired several thousand long-range missiles at Ukraine. In the past week, however, Russia has expanded its targeting of civilian infrastructure even in situations where it likely perceives little imminent military effect, according to the update.
As a result of failures on the front lines, Russia has undoubtedly increased the number of targets it is willing to attack in an attempt to directly demoralize the Ukrainian people and administration.
At a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan yesterday, President Putin denied that his forces had been routed in eastern Ukraine and stated that his troops were still capturing ground in the Donbas.
A burned-out Russian MT-LB armored personnel carrier is pictured in a field on the outskirts of Izyum.
Vladimir Putin, addressing at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation session in Uzbekistan, stated that his effort in the Donbas is still “progressing” despite recent humiliating losses in the Kharkiv region.
The Ministry of Defense asserted in its most recent intelligence update that Russia had boosted rocket assaults on civilian facilities over the past week in an effort to demoralize Ukrainian residents.
Our offensive campaign in Donbas will continue. They’re advancing – not very quickly, but they’re gradually capturing more and more land,’ Putin stated in his first comments since his army crumbled and abandoned the Kharkiv region of Ukraine over the weekend.
Putin warned on Friday of a “more severe” response if Ukrainian counterattacks continue to gain territory.
The authorities of Kiev have proclaimed the launch of an intensive counteroffensive campaign. In Samarkand, the capital of Uzbekistan, he said with a chuckle, “Let’s see how this turns out.”
In light of the threat, US President Biden advised Putin to refrain from employing nuclear weapons when his forces are defeated in Ukraine, or face ‘consequences’
In a preview for this Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes, interviewer Scott Pelley asked the president what he would say to his Russian counterpart if he considered use chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine.
Biden responded: ‘Don’t. Don’t. Don’t. You will alter the nature of conflict in ways not seen since World War II.
When Pelley pressed the president for a response should Putin cross the line, Vice President Biden refused to comment on a precise plan, stating simply that the United States would act if nuclear weapons were used.
‘It’ll be consequential,’ Biden said. ‘[Russia] will become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been.’