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Polish Parliament | 10Dec2015 | Matgorzata Gosiewska et al
http://www.donbasswarcrimes.org/report/
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/12/19/86992/
2015-12-10 19:07
155 pages

Russian war crimes in eastern Ukraine in 2014

Report in PDF Format is available here
http://www.donbasswarcrimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Russian_War_Crimes_in_Eastern_Ukraine_in_2014.pdf

Summary

This report describes war crimes in the meaning of international law committed in eastern and southern Ukraine by soldiers and officials of the Russian Federation and by the pro-Russian separatist fighters. The crimes documented herein include unlawful deprivation of freedom, physical and mental tortures, robbery and murders.

Chapters 1 through 3 are of an introductory nature. They describe the methodology used by the authors of the report and present the circumstances in which the subsequently detailed crimes were committed.

The locations and types of the crimes that were committed as well as their perpetrators are described in chapter 4. The authors discuss only those crimes they were told about by the victims thereof during the field research. More than 60 interviews were gathered in the course of collecting the materials for this report. Each action described in chapter 4 is confirmed by a quote from the testimony of one or more victims.

Chapter 4 is divided into subchapters that correspond to each  of  the  venues where war crimes have been committed, as identified by the authors of the report. Most of those venues are in eastern Ukraine, one in Crimea and one in the territory of the Russian Federation, where the Russian army brought Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Chapter 5 is a catalogue of perpetrators of the crimes who were mentioned in the testimonies of the victims, including a short overview and references to the description of the venues where the crimes were being committed, and pictures.

The victims are not mentioned by name but by an assigned "C" (case) code names and numbers. Any personal data that could be used to identify the victims indirectly such as, for example, pictures, have been included only if a specific victim agreed to the disclosure of his or her identity and spoke freely in the media.

Based on the documentary evidence described in the report a communication will be submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

This report is the result of examinations conducted by a group of volunteers volunteers commissionned by a Member of the Polish Parliament, Matgorzata Gosiewska.

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Table of contents

1.  Objective and purpose of the report................................................................................................6

2.  Methodology of gathering information..................................................................................9

2.1.  Identifying and finding war crime victims.........................................................................10

2.2.  Interviewing victims and witnesses, collecting information...............................................11

2.3.  Identifying war crime perpetrators.....................................................................................13

3.  Conditions in eastern Ukraine resulting from the conflict between Ukraine and Russia...............14

3.1.  Donetsk Oblast – Donetsk People’s Republic..................................................................19

3.2.  Mariupol and surroundings...............................................................................................24

3.3.  Luhansk oblast – Luhansk People’s Republic...................................................................25

4.  Venues and perpetrators mentioned in the victims’ testimonies......................................................29

4.1.  Antratsit, Municipal Military Command Office..................................................................31

4.2.  Donetsk, separatists headquarters.......................................................................................34

4.3.  Donetsk, building used by the GRU of the 58th Army of the Russian Federation............42

4.4.  Donetsk, headquarters of the “Oplot” battalion of the Russian Orthodox Army................46

4.5.  Donetsk, “Vostok” battalion...............................................................................................51

4.6.  Donetsk, “Somalia” battalion..............................................................................................57

4.7.  Donetsk, headquarters of the “Sparta” battalion.................................................................60

4.8.  Donetsk, headquarters of the Donetsk People’s Republic and of the “Vostok” battalion...66

4.9.  Donetsk, headquarters of the “Vostok” battalion...............................................................72

4.10.  Horlivka, building of the Public Prosecutor’s Office........................................................74

4.11.  Horlivka, people’s militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic...........................................77

4.12.  Horlivka, NKVD of the Donetsk People’s Republic.......................................................80

4.13.  Kramatorsk......................................................................................................................86

4.14.  Luhansk, headquarters of the “Batman” Fast Response Group.......................................90

4.15.  Luhansk, military commanding office of the Luhansk People’s Republic......................94

4.16.  Makiivka, unit of the Don Cossacks..............................................................................98

4.17.  Makiivka, Russian Orthodox Army..............................................................................102

4.18.  Perevalsk, Cossack National Guard.............................................................................107

4.19.  Rovenky, St. George battalion......................................................................................111

4.20.  Slavyansk, people’s militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic......................................114

4.21. Slavyansk, district police jail ..........................................................................................119

4.22. Snizhne, police station ....................................................................................................124

4.23. Simferopol, headquarters of the Crimean Army .............................................................129

4.24. Donetsk (Russia), interrogation venue of the FSB of the Russian Federation ...............132

5. Perpetrators’ profiles ....................................................................................................................136


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