Russia's leadership has ordered the destruction of any evidence of its army's crimes in Ukraine. This happened after the widespread international genocide of the Ukrainian people in Bucha in the Kyiv region, russian troops began to use mobile crematoria in Ukraine.
In particular, 13 mobile crematoria were registered in Mariupol to clean the streets from the bodies of dead civilians. The invaders are trying to identify and destroy all potential witnesses to the atrocities through filtration camps, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's intelligence department.
The military intelligence of Ukraine has repeatedly recorded the use of mobile crematoria in the Chernihiv region. The work of the enemy's mobile crematorium was recorded in Novoaydar, Luhansk region.
The russian Armed Forces also use mobile crematoria to destroy the bodies of russian servicemen in order to hide the actual number of their soldiers who died during the russian aggression against Ukraine and to refuse to pay the families of the dead russians.
The actions of the russian army fall under the definition of "genocide" in accordance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The russian leadership will continue to try to hide the facts of war crimes in Ukraine, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine emphasises.