Coverage of war crimes in Ukraine, including forced deportations of children and prosecution of perpetrators.
Russian forces killed at least four civilians in a series of strikes on Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, and Zaporizhzhia on 27-28 August. Meanwhile, Ukraine served suspicion notices to four occupation officials for deporting 53 children and indicted Crimean zoo owner Oleh Zubkov for stealing rare animals from a protected reserve.
Russian aerial bombs hit residential areas in Kramatorsk and industrial facilities in Zaporizhzhia, injuring four people over two days. Ukraine's Prosecutor General has submitted an indictment against a Crimean zoo owner for stealing rare animals from a UNESCO reserve, and four occupation officials face charges for deporting 53 children to Russia in 2022.
Ukraine charges four occupation officials for the 2022 deportation of 53 children to Russia. Meanwhile, Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Sloviansk on 25-26 August injure at least six civilians.