Andriy Kostin said he believed Kyiv was close to gaining U.S. support to establish a special tribunal to prosecute Russia's war crimes.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said authorities have registered more than 65,000 Russian war crimes since Moscow's conflict began nearly a year ago.
War crime prosecutor of Kharkiv Oblast stands with forensic technician and policeman at the site of a mass burial in a forest during exhumation on September 16, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine.WASHINGTON – Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said Wednesday that regional authorities have registered more than 65,000 Russian war crimes since Moscow's conflict began nearly a year ago.
His comments add to an emerging picture of the horrors experienced during nearly a year of war in Ukraine. The conflict has shown few signs of ending soon, even as local and international officials try to probe potential crimes committed over recent months in Ukraine. Beth van Schaack, President Joe Biden's ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, said on Wednesday that the U.S. is considering a proposal that would name an interim prosecutor to start recording evidence of potential crimes that could be used later.
Kostin outlined even more of what he described as Russian abuses. He said his teams have also documented more than 14,000 Ukrainian children forced into adoption in Russia. Kostin added that so far, more than 75,000 buildings, including homes, schools and hospitals, have been reduced to rubble.Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images
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