'At this critical moment in history, I am pleased to announce that the United States supports the development of an internationalized tribunal dedicated to prosecuting the crime of aggression against Ukraine,' US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack announced Monday. Now they don’t let us go anywhere at all, they promise to destroy us,' the soldiers said. They also claimed in the video that “barrier troops” - which are also known as troops that prevent any unit from retreating - “were put up against us and did not let us leave our positions. The video message last week, addressed to Putin, showed about 20 men of the Storm detachment who said men were thrown into trenches “littered with corpses.' Two of the units have vanished and “have allegedly already been put on the wanted list as having left the unit without permission,” ASTRA says, quoting relatives of the soldiers. They were subsequently sent to Donetsk, according to ASTRA. Last week, the men stated in a video that they had been confined in trenches in the village of Vodiane near Donetsk.

Soldiers of a Russian army unit who complained to President Vladimir Putin about their “criminal” commanders and being forced into suicidal combat situations are now under interrogation by the military prosecutor’s office, according to an independent Russian media outlet, ASTRA.ĪSTRA said it had spoken with relatives of the men, who serve with the Storm detachment of a brigade of the 8th Russian army.

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