RUSSIAN ABOMINATIONS IN UKRAINE

Non-Exhaustive List

1. Indiscriminate attacks and strikes on civilian objects such as houses, hospitals, schools and kindergartens, as well as shopping malls.
2. Attacks on health care facilities and workers (breach in medical neutrality and violations of international humanitarian law).
3. Use of cluster munitions in populated areas (incompatible with principles of international humanitarian law prohibiting indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks).
4. Targeting of nuclear power plants (attacks on nuclear power facilities are mainly governed by Article 56 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions which generally prohibits attacks against civilian nuclear power plants).
5. Attacks on cultural properties such as historical sites, historical monuments, works of art, churches, religious buildings and museums. (The cultural property enjoys special protection under international humanitarian law. Protocol I of the Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, prohibits state parties from targeting historic monuments in support of a military effort and from making them the objects of acts of hostility or reprisals. Protocol II of the Hague Convention allows attacks on cultural property only in case of "imperative military necessity" provided that there is no feasible alternative. While Protocol II does not apply as such, as only Ukraine is a party and it applies only between parties, the provision on imperative military necessity may be applicable if it is interpreted as informing the convention, rather than adding to it. Attacks against cultural heritage amount to war crimes and can be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court).
6. Attacks on health care facilities, patients, and healthcare workers are violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
7. Targeting of humanitarian corridors (a violation of International Humanitarian Law and a war crime)
8. Ill-treatment, torture and willful killing of civilians.
9. Shooting on passing civilian vehicles.
10. Abduction and torture of civilians (beating, torturing, kidnapping, electrocutions, mock executions, strangulations, threats to kill family members and other forms of torture).
11. Use of human shields (using civilians as human shields when under attack).
12. Use of nuclear power plants for active military operations.
13. Sexual violence used in a systematic and deliberate way as a weapon of war against women and girls (summary killings, gang rapes committed at gunpoint and rapes committed in front of children, forced public stripping and threats of sexual violence).
14. Forceful deportation of thousands of residents from Ukraine to Russia (Deportation of protected peoples such as civilians during war is prohibited by Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention).
15. Arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and hostage taking (International humanitarian law allows the internment of civilians in armed conflict only when they individually pose a security threat and all detained persons whose prisoners of war (PoW) status is in doubt must be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention until their status has been determined).
16. Forced conscription (compelling civilians to serve in armed groups affiliated with a hostile power may constitute a serious breach of the laws and customs of international humanitarian law, and it constitutes a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court).
17. Detention camps ( torture and killing of refugees when being processed through filtration camps, beatings, electrocution and suffocating people with plastic bags over their heads).
18. Abduction of Ukrainian children (children whose parents were killed by the Russian military, orphans being deported to Russia’s eastern provinces).
19. Treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs must be treated humanly, must not be exposed to public curiosity and treated with dignity).
20. Execution of Ukrainian soldiers (execution of surrendering Ukrainian soldiers).
21. Death sentence against foreign soldiers serving in the Ukrainian armed forces.
22. Torture of captured Ukrainian soldiers (castration of PoW who is tied up and gagged).
23. Explosion of prison with prisoners of war.
24. Looting (looting is a war crime under several treaties, looting towns, taking clothing, jewelry, electronics, kitchen appliances of evacuees, the deceased and those still in the city, stealing artworks from various museums).
25. The Parliaments of Ukraine as well as Canada, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Ireland have declared that the war crimes taking place in the invasion were genocide, that there was a genocidal intent and those acts are prohibited by the Genocide Convention).