The Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office has found that 1,139 people were tortured, ill-treated and injured by Russian soldiers during the partial occupation of Kyiv Region.
The prosecutors disclosed this information in response to a request from ZMINA.
In total, prosecutors of the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office have investigated 12,456 criminal offences classified as war crimes under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine since the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of the region. These crimes include, among others, ill-treatment of civilians, forced labour, looting of national valuables in the occupied territory, etc.
"Out of the total number, 61 criminal offences were investigated on the grounds of torture or other inhuman treatment, 615 criminal offences on the grounds of infliction of bodily harm involving 1,139 people, and 188 criminal offences on the grounds of illegal deprivation of liberty," the prosecutor's office said in their response.
In addition, according to the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Regional Prosecutor's Office, the total number of civilians in Kyiv Region who were illegally abducted, deprived of their liberty, taken away or held extrajudicially by representatives of the aggressor country is 203.
During this time, prosecutors have served 78 people with notices of suspicion of committing war crimes under Article 438 of the Criminal Code.