The shooting of a Ukrainian priest by Russian soldiers is being logged as a suspected war crime.
Village priest Rostyslav Dudarenko with fellow priests Pavlo Naydenov and Serhii Tsoma
The following is an account gathered by the BBC of just one of the incidents that have been logged as a suspected war crime. It is not possible to establish exactly what happened, but one survivor of the attack, Yukhym , told the BBC he had been manning the checkpoint with Dudarenko and around a dozen others when they learned three Russian tanks had driven through the village. He says the group decided to hide in the woods, ready to confront them if necessary.
The voluntary group Dudarenko, 45, had joined had no military status. A couple had some military training - having previous experience in the long-running conflict with Russia in the Donbas in the east, according to another volunteer called Eduard . Some were simply amateur hunters. Most were over the age of 50, he told the BBC.
"Rostyslav was a kind and optimistic person. I think that's why he went to try and stop the Russians." The cases - suspected contraventions of Ukraine's article 438: Violation of the rules of warfare - have also been uploaded on to a centralised website used by Ukraine's state institutions.
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