The EU presidency has said that an international tribunal for Russian war crimes must be installed after new mass graves were discovered in Ukraine earlier this week.
Jan Lipavsky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency said that in the 21st century, such aggression against the civilian people is incomprehensible and abhorrent, and he said that we must not overlook it, and that they stand for the punishment of all war criminals, and that he calls for the speedy establishment of a special international tribunal that will prosecute the crime of aggression.
The appeal follows the finding of about 450 graves outside the recently liberated municipality of Izyum in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region.
Some of the disinterred bodies displayed signs of torture and authorities have discovered several buildings which seem to have been utilised as torture chambers by Russian soldiers and FSB agents.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky described the finding of electrical implements for torture, and that more than 10 torture chambers had already been discovered in various municipalities and towns liberated in the Kharkiv province.
He said that’s what the Nazis did, and that’s what the Russians do, and that they would be held accountable in the same way, both on the battlefield and in courtrooms.
It comes as a British Ministry of Defence (MoD) intelligence update claimed that Moscow had stepped up its rocket attacks on civilian infrastructure as its troops withdraw from the Kharkiv region.
Head of Kharkiv regional administration Oleg Synegubov said that 99 per cent of bodies that were exhumed exhibited signs of violent death.
Synegubox told readers on the Telegram messaging app that there were several bodies with their hands bound behind their backs, and that one person was buried with a rope around his neck.
The Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, said there were likely more than 1,000 Ukrainian citizens tortured and killed in the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region, although this number had not been yet confirmed.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the mass graves probably provided more proof that Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine, while French President Emmanuel Macron described what had transpired in Izyum as atrocities.
The United Nations in Geneva said it hopes to send a team to decide the circumstances of the deaths, much like it did approximately five months ago after the Russian army, driven out of Bucha near the capital Kyiv, left behind hundreds of corpses of civilians.
It seems that we don’t live in a civilised world, it is barbaric, and any country that declares any kind of war on another country is definitely not a civilised country.
We have looted, plundered, destroyed, killed, tortured, mutilated and ruled other countries for years, but now claim that we are civilised, but we are not!
All war crimes should be investigated, but the problem is that most of the world doesn’t actually care, one way or the other, and the bottom line is that this evil person called Vladimir Putin and his wicked soldiers need to be brought to justice before he turns into another Hitler.
However, the unfortunate reality is that we don’t live in a civilised world, we just believe that we do, and our view of a civilised world is a fantasy built on our imagination and ignorance.
The painful truth is that the people that carry out these crimes are depraved and Vladimir Putin is a madman, and you can bet your bottom dollar that this man’s not interested in a peaceful settlement, all he’s interested in is killing innocent people for his own satisfaction.
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