The city of Mariupol, under siege for more than two weeks, is the crudest scene of the war. Russian troops are massacring civilians by bombing buildings, hospitals, schools and even shelters in the city, whose strategic position is a jewel for the Putin regime, which wants to gain control of the Sea of Azov. During the siege, few journalists have managed to work withinbut your images are possible proof of the Kremlin war crimes.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin bombed a theater in which hundreds of people were taking refuge, although fortunately they have not had to mourn fatalities, and the wounded have been evacuated. Ukraine also accuses Russia of having bombed a maternity hospital in the city in which there were only newborns and pregnant women.
Furthermore, without drinking water, electricity or heating for more than 18 days, the situation there is critical. Many inhabitants suffer the hardest face of the war: hunger, temperatures below 0ºC and thirst suffocate a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants who has seen attempts to deliver humanitarian aid frustrated during the last weeks.
In total, nine out of ten buildings in the city have been damaged by bombing. Missiles have fallen on soccer fields, children’s playgrounds, theaters, cultural centers, schools, houses… turning hospital basements into morgues and causing the opening of mass graves.
Could Putin be tried as a war criminal?
The decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI), Karim Khan, to request the opening of an investigation into the invasion of Ukraine by Russia begins to outline on a horizon, still distant, the possibility that the Russian president, Vladimir Putinand the political and military leadership of his regime could be investigated and tried by genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“Any person who commits such crimesincluding the fact of ordering, inciting or contributing in any other way to the commission of these, may be prosecuted in courtwith full respect for the principle of complementarity,” said Khan last week in one of the statements released by his office, in which he considered it “imperative” that “all parties to the conflict respect their obligations under international humanitarian law.” .
Source: Lasexta
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