The numbers are tragic. Guest this Tuesday morning on BFMTV, Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s attorney general, estimates that “probably 50,000 civilians have already died” in the country since the start of the conflict.
“At this stage, we can prove that at least 7,497 civilians, including 416 children, have been killed,” he said. “We understand that since a large number of Ukrainian territories are beyond our control, for example Mariupol, we are talking about tens of thousands of victims,” he adds.
Kyiv calls for punishing perpetrators of war crimes
Andriy Kostin also claimed that since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, the Ukrainian authorities have “recorded more than 36,000 war crimes.” Among them, several have been documented, including that of Boutcha or that of the town of Zaliznytchné.
“It shows the same kind of aggressor behavior that we have seen since the liberation of the Kyiv region, when the whole world discovered the crimes of the Russian aggressor,” he explains.
For him, the Ukrainian position is clear, “any war crimes committed by Russia on the territory of Ukraine must be redressed and all guilty punished. For the most part, these crimes are related to mass murder, torture, rape, treatment inhuman of our citizens.”
Source: BFM TV
