I first reported on the formation of this investigative commission in November 2018 when Deputy Foreign Minister Anna Soroka described its formation and the scope of the investigation it would conduct at the "We will not forget! We will not forgive! memorial where hundreds of unknown civilians and military were buried in a mass grave. At the time she made it clear LNR was committed to identifying every person killed and injured by Ukraine's army and volunteer punishing battalions. They were going to identify and catalog every object in LNR that was damaged by Ukraine.
The investigation went forward and Deputy Foreign Minister Anna Soroka working with the investigative group "Memorial." They put the mechanisms in place to find proofs of Ukraine's responsibility for crimes against humanity against LNR citizens. Human rights violations were also cataloged.
Over the course of 5 months, Memorial cataloged all the information about the number of people injured and killed by Ukraine as well as the number of objects (buildings, bridges, infrastructure) damaged or destroyed by the war. On top of that, the ecological damage has been documented. The forest replanting and waterway restorations are going to be very costly.
All this information will be brought to the international courts.
Today, the main thing is sharing this information. The need to resolve these crimes against humanity has to remain high in international news. The people of LNR and DNR are not statistics. Until nationalist militias destroyed their world, they lived very normal lives. Protecting their rights to do that again certifies the rights of people around the globe and sets a precedent that people's lives do matter.
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