The eerie sound of alarm sirens and the words: ‘Beyond evil, even during the war’. This opens the online archive created by Kiev to document Russian war crimes. The site contains several sections: from the one on victims to those on torture, hostages and rape. Then the numbers: 1,563 dead, including 167 children, 4,820 war crimes, 6,800 buildings destroyed. Figures that Kiev documents with testimonies from civilians but also from the media. But above all with photos: from the bombed children’s hospital in Mariupol and those of the Bucha massacre. The site is updated yesterday with the attack on Kramatorsk station.
“We have created an online archive to document Russia’s war crimes,” explained Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “The evidence gathered of the atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine will prevent war criminals from escaping justice,” added the minister after yet another massacre discovered in Makariv, in the Kiev region, where rescuers found 132 bodies of people tortured and killed. “A new, monstrous war crime.” Kuleba said.
The new archive will help Ukrainian prosecutors investigating alleged Russian war crimes after images of the horrors committed in Bucha surfaced. According to data released by the prosecutor’s office, a total of 4,468 potential war crimes have been included among those under investigation, but the figure is growing by hundreds of cases every day. Ukrainian Attorney General Iryna Venediktova described the “hell” of the recently liberated cities around Kiev and promised to “punish the inhuman people” who are responsible for them during a press conference in Bucha reported by the Guardian.