All of them will be prosecuted: Ukrainian ambassador on Russias war crimes

Ukrainian ambassador Oksana Markarova said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his forces will be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine.

Markarova told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation that’ “all” Russian forces and leaders who have committed atrocities in Ukraine will be hauled to an international court and face trial.

“We have the criminal cases opened in Ukraine, more than 4000 of individual criminal cases already by the prosecutor general. We have ten more countries that opened their own individual criminal prosecutions, and we are providing all the evidence to them,” Markarova said on Sunday.

“All of them will be prosecuted, both military commanders, personnel, people who did it on the ground, the people who ordered it, and ultimately Putin,” she added.

Responding to a question about where she hopes to see the perpetrators face trial, the Ukrainian ambassador said “everywhere.”

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“There should be no place on earth where they can hide,” she said. 

“We would like them to be tried in Ukraine. And we really hope that after we win and after Ukraine is liberated, that we will have a tribunal. Ukraine and our people are entitled to a full scale tribunal, but anywhere where they can be prosecuted is fine,” the ambassador added. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his troops have allegedly committed several war crimes across war-torn Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion. 

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On Saturday, a Russian serviceman stationed in Ukraine was detained after he filmed a video of himself raping an infant, according to The Insider.

As per a report by Nexta, a Belarusian news outlet, the soldier planned to sell the video on the darknet but stopped in his tracks after he sent the video to his fellow military men.