On Monday, November 13, at 10.30, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a press conference on the subject: " Activists and Journalists Identify 182,000 Russian War Criminals: How Many of Them Have Been Punished?" within the framework of the project entitled "Identification of Russian War Criminals: Improvement of https://rwc.shtab.net" with the assistance of the USAID-funded ENGAGE program and implemented by Pact Ukraine. Participants: Head of the Department for Interaction with Intergovernmental, State and Non-Governmental Organizations of the War Crimes Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine Oleksandr Ziuz, Board Chairman of NGO Anti-Corruption Headquarters and co-founder of the Register of Russian War Criminals Serhiy Mytkalyk, representative of the investigative journalism agency Slidstvo.Info Oleksandr Voloshyn, Head of the Department for Documenting War Crimes of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Serhiy
drawn from some of the world s major war crimes tribunals that are working side by side with the office of the prosecutor general in ukraine, helping to build capacity within her war crimes directorate, how to gather evidence, how to ensure it is appropriate for a criminal trial, how to authenticate evidence that is found, and how to ultimately press charges. there will be cases before ukrainian national courts, but there also may be cases before other national courts and other international tribunals in the future. on that note. last week, following those devastating images out of bucha, president biden said this. have a listen. you ve got to remember, i got criticized for calling putin a war criminal. well, the truth of the matter, you saw what happened in bucha. he is a war criminal. but we have to gather the information, we have to continue to provide ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. and we have to get all the detail so this can be an actual, have a war
based on information that is currently available, the u.s. government assesses that russia s forces are committing war crimes in ukraine. we are committing to pursuing full accountability for war crimes in ukraine, using all of the tools that are available to us. but what does full accountability look like? ambassador van-schak joins me now. thank you so much for coming on the show this evening. ambassador, how is the united states assisting the ukrainian government in documenting these suspected war crimes? what role is the administration, the state department, playing here? yes, thanks so much for the question. we are supporting a team of prosecutors and investigators draw from some of the world s moisture war crimes tribunals that are working side by side with the office of the prosecutor general in ukraine, helping to build capacity within her war crimes directorate, how to authenticate evidence that is
allies, international institutions, where exactly do you think the accountability here is going to come from? it does not appear likely or in fact, it s impossible basically, that any kind of u.n. mandate or u.n. approved court will take this up considering it s got to go through the security counsel and russia will veto it. so where exactly are you expecting accountability the come from? honestly, we have to be considering all of the options available including domestic courts. obviously, we have the courts in ukraine itself as the prosecutor generals office has a war crimes directorate. supporting efforts to build capacity within that office and help them do these cases ultimately if and when they have custody over particular perpetrators. in addition, third states within the region who may gain custody
The US government has formally declared that members of the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday.