SSU is investigating 92,000 criminal proceedings regarding full-scale aggression of Russian Federation, - Maliuk
The Security Service of Ukraine has started a pre-trial investigation into almost 92,000 criminal proceedings related to the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Of these, investigations are ongoing in about 43,000 cases related to Russia’s violations of the laws and customs of war.
This was announced by the head of the SSU, Vasyl Maliuk, Censor.NET informs.
"To date, the SSU is investigating almost 43,000 proceedings under Article 438 - violations of the laws and customs of war. And we do not just record these crimes. We perform all the necessary procedural actions within the framework of Ukrainian legislation. So that sooner or later all Russian criminals appear at the court," said the head of the SSU.
First of all, this concerns the highest military and political leadership of the Russian Federation and the command of the army. According to Maliuk, 448 war criminals from this category of Russian officials, including more than 25 commanders of separate branches of troops and armies, have been notified of suspicion.
Specific perpetrators of crimes are also established. For example, it was announced that the commander of the heavy bomber regiment, Colonel Tymoshyn, was suspected. SSU investigators established that he was responsible for rocket attacks on a residential building in Dnipro in January this year and on the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk in June 2022.
In total, 95 criminal proceedings against 142 people from the military and political leadership of the Russian Federation have been brought to court, of which 22 have already been convicted.
"The decision of the International Criminal Court on the arrest of Putin and Lvova-Belova is only the beginning. We have to provide a strong evidence base in order to complete this path," Maliuk emphasized.
He added that international structures are involved in this work, which investigates both individual cases and the "main" proceedings about Russian aggression against Ukraine. "The SSU maximally unifies the search and analysis of data - so as not to lose a single piece of evidence of a crime. Missile debris, intercepted conversations, satellite images, and "trophy documentation" - everything goes into our treasure trove of evidence," Maliuk emphasized.
