Ukrainian prosecutors have recorded more than 120,000 instances of war crimes committed by Russian troops since the February 2022 invasion, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin says.
Speaking to journalists at the Ukraine 2024 forum in Kyiv, Kostin said investigations had already led to convictions.
“There is no crime that the Russians have not committed during this war,” Kostin said. “We already have 80 judgments handed down by Ukrainian courts during the war.”
Ukraine is aiming for tribunals modelled on the Nuremberg trials held after World War 2 at which Nazi war criminals were tried. Kostin cited the example of crimes committed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which fell to Russian forces in May 2022.
Russian forces have regularly been accused of executing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war.
The Red Cross was also not helping in returning Ukrainian children being held illegally in Russia and the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, Yermak said. According to Kyiv, more than 20,000 Ukrainian children are being held.
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Zelensky told a news conference in Kyiv that he could not disclose the number of wounded because it would help Russian military planning.
Ukraine has not put a number to its military losses since the end of 2022, when presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the invasion on February 24.
Russia does not disclose military losses, which it regards as secret.
Additional reporting by Reuters