Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has called on the US and other Western countries to help prosecute Russian war crimes. Ukraine needs experts in military law and specialists in investigating war crimes to punish Russian attackers, Reznikov said on Facebook today.
He sent a request to this effect via the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv to the Ukraine contact group, which includes Germany and Great Britain in addition to the USA. The minister stressed that an international coalition had to be formed to investigate the bloody crimes.
Resnikov also referred in particular to the fate of Ukrainian prisoners of war, who were killed and tortured en masse in Russian custody. “I have no doubt that after Ukraine’s victory in this war, one way or another we will track down everyone involved in the barbaric killings and torture,” Reznikov said.
Not only the perpetrators themselves were to be punished, but those who gave the orders and those who justified such crimes. He cited the Nuremberg war crimes trials against National Socialists after the Second World War as a model.