[Captain Walker]

Reality remains as it was, Russia is a serial aggressor nation that has committed war crimes and continues to do so.

Russians would no doubt point to the US and agree that our policy in the Middle East has been a 30-year-long war crime.

Try as it might, the American Propagandaministerium can't shrug off Russian concerns about our push eastward into Russia's backyard.

[nathanbedford]

IA:

Russia has been widely condemned for committing war crimes in Ukraine, both by international organizations and national governments, but the country as a whole has not been declared a “war criminal” in the strict legal sense. Multiple investigative bodies, international courts, and national authorities have established substantial evidence pointing to numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian forces and officials during the invasion.

Key points:

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine and other UN bodies have concluded that war crimes have been committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, including deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, and other grave violations of the Geneva Conventions.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, for the war crime of illegal deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia and for further alleged war crimes such as attacks on civilian objects and causing excessive harm to civilians.

Besides Putin, the ICC also issued arrest warrants for high-ranking Russian military officers—Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, Sergei Kobylash, and Viktor Sokolov—in connection with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

Ukrainian courts have convicted individual Russian soldiers for war crimes committed in Ukraine, and thousands of suspected war crimes are under ongoing investigation or prosecution by Ukrainian authorities.

“The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine.”

“On 17 March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova over allegations of involvement in the war crime of child abductions during the invasion of Ukraine.”

“As of March 2023, at least 26 war crimes suspects had been convicted by Ukrainian courts.”