Violations of human rights by the Russian federation during full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine

The full-scale military aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine has resulted in massive human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the conditions Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, human rights organizations document war crimes committed by russian soldiers, and the Ukrainian authorities sue the russian federation and its leadership in international courts. In the national legislation, the Criminal Code of Ukraine provides for criminal liability for committing certain types of war crimes and crimes against humanity. For the empirical substantiation of violations of IHL norms by russia in relation to Ukraine, the method of cabinet research was used, which consisted in the collection, study, systematization and analysis of secondary sources of information on the violation of human rights by Russia. The study was conducted from the moment of the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression until December, 2022, the object was the statements of the Ukrainian authorities and their individual representatives regarding russia’s violations of the rules and laws of warfare; conversations between the russian occupiers intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine; Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; weekly reports of the International Organization for Migration; platforms “Children of War”, Warcrimes.gov.ua, russiancrime, reports of human rights organizations, materials of Ukrinform periodicals etс.