Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK) has been investigating 2,544 Kiev regime war crimes in Donbass since 2014, SK chairman Alexander Bastrykin said.
“As of now, the SK is conducting preliminary investigation into 2,544 criminal cases filed since 2014,” TASS quoted Bastryukin as saying.
Most of them - 1,443 - have been filed since conflict escalation by Ukraine and subsequent special military operation, he said.
“Separate cases are rare as most crimes were committed against the civilian population; each case means human fates and the death of children is particularly hard to accept,” Bastrykin said.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. The LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations on July 3, 2022.
The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*v
