Zelensky announces a “Book of Executioners” which will document Russian war crimes
More than 100 days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky announced that “next week, a special ‘Book of Executioners’ is planned to be launched, a computer system that collects confirmed data on war criminals and criminals from the ‘Russian army’.
“I have reiterated several times that they will all be held accountable for their actions”, he said in the speech released in the last hours by the Ukrainian presidency, adding that “we are approaching this goal step by step”, while – according to Zelensky – “more than 31,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine “since February 24, almost” 300 lives a day for an absolutely meaningless war “and,” the day will come when the number of casualties, even for Russia, will exceed the tolerated limit “.
In the “Book of Executioners”, Zelensky said that it is “detailed facts about specific people who are guilty of specific violent crimes against Ukrainians”. The president spoke of “responsibility not only of the direct perpetrators of the crimes, soldiers of the occupation army, but also of their commanders”.