A pattern of genocidal behavior
Ukraine's top prosecutor said Tuesday that Russian crimes across occupied Ukrainian territories, including the Bucha massacres, show a pattern of genocidal behavior that should be tried domestically and ultimately by the International Criminal Court.
Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin made the remarks during an interview with Reuters two years after the mass killing of civilians in the town of Bucha, shortly after Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
More than 125,000 alleged war crimes by Russian forces have been recorded by Kostin's office, thousands of them in Bucha. Russia denies its troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine and said that some events, such as the alleged execution of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, were staged. Moscow rejects the ICC's four warrants for top Russian suspects as meaningless.