- Title: Ukraine has documented more than 183,000 war crimes, Zelenskiy says
- Date: 31st March 2025
- Summary: BUCHA, UKRAINE (MARCH 31, 2025) (UKRAINIAN POOL) DELEGATIONS FROM SEVERAL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTS AND UKRAINIAN TOP OFFICIALS SEATED AT ROUNDTABLE AT 'BUCHA SUMMIT' (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, SAYING (OVER VARIOUS ANGLES): "I'd like to ask all of us to commemorate those Ukrainians whose lives the Russian aggression has taken, whether here
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- Keywords: Bucha Putin Russia Zelenskiy war crimes war in Ukraine
- Location: BUCHA, UKRAINE
- City: BUCHA, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001304731032025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Ukraine has documented more than 183,000 Russian war crimes since Moscow's February 2022 invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday (March 31), piling pressure on local authorities and a International Criminal Court (ICC) under strain from U.S. sanctions.
Kyiv is probing alleged atrocities like abduction, torture and murder while struggling to fend off Russia's three-year-old full-scale assault, and is seeking help from its allies to hold the Kremlin accountable.
Addressing a summit of European officials in Bucha, the Kyiv suburb now synonymous with alleged Russian war crimes, Zelenskiy said the tally did not include most of the Ukrainian territory Russia currently occupies.
Together with first lady Olena Zelenska and visiting European officials, he paid tribute to the victims Ukraine say were massacred by Russian troops during their month-long occupation of Bucha.
The pullback of Russian forces following their failed assault on Kyiv in early 2022 revealed ravaged streets littered with civilian bodies there and in nearby towns.
Moscow's forces had committed more than 9,000 crimes in the area, including 1,800 killings, according to acting prosecutor general Oleksii Khomenko.
The vast majority of war crimes cases are being investigated by Ukraine and tried locally in understaffed courts, but the ICC has conducted its own investigations into separate high-profile episodes.
It has issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and ex-defence minister Sergei Shoigu for the deportation of Ukrainian children and the targeting of Ukraine's energy grid, respectively.
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