Euromaidan SOS and the Ukrainian Bar Association submitted to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights an informational presentation on Russia's war crimes in Ukraine, Oleksandra Matviychuk, head of the board of the Center for Civil Liberties, said.

This is information about gross violations of the Geneva Conventions: premeditated killings, torture, inhuman treatment; destruction of cities, villages, houses; attacks on schools, hospitals, religious buildings and historical monuments; forcing Ukrainians in the occupied territories to participate in the war against their country; using artificial starvation as a way of waging war.

And also about the creation of barriers for rendering assistance in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.

“The collected data testify to the systemic and large-scale nature of the commission of war crimes.. Among them are unique testimonies collected by volunteers-documenters of Euromaidan SOS,” comments lawyer, teacher Maria Tsypiashchuk.

The submission contains information about the brutal and cruel actions of the occupiers: the killing of civilians, the shooting of cars with people and children who tried to evacuate, the holding hostage of hundreds of people who were forced to live in inhuman conditions for more than a month, indiscriminate shelling and others..

“The whole world has become convinced that the aggressive war that Russia is waging against Ukraine is not limited to purely military goals.. The Russian military command and top political leadership are openly demonstrating that military actions are aimed specifically at the destruction of Ukraine, its culture and population,” said Oleksiy Koltok, Counsel for Judicial Practice.

The expert has no doubts that these war crimes will be investigated and responsibility will certainly come..

Volunteer initiative " One of the areas of work was the mobilization of volunteers to collect evidence of war crimes in the Russian army.

Worked at the OSCE by: Alexey Koltok, Margarita Koltok, Elizaveta Gerasimchuk, Maria Tsipiashchuk, Vladislav Egorov, Veronika Gretsa, Yuri Kabanov, Yuri Belous, Dmitry Gladky, Yulia Topal, Mikhail Protsailo, Natalia Chop, Alexandra Nessonova, Tatyana Vidai.

The Moscow Mechanism is a procedure established within the OSCE that allows the deployment of a short-term international fact-finding mission to address a specific human rights problem in a region.

On March 3, 45 OSCE participating States, including Ukraine, activated this mechanism to study the impact of the war unleashed by the Russian Federation with the support of Belarus on human rights and its humanitarian consequences.

The mission began work on March 15, its mandate is valid in the occupied Crimea and Donbas.

A group of international experts should establish the facts and circumstances of a possible violation of international law, the country's obligations under the OSCE, possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The information collected will be presented under the appropriate mechanisms for prosecution in national, regional and international courts or tribunals that have or will have jurisdiction over these matters..