The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has transferred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the materials on the involvement of regular servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces in the artillery attack on Mariupol in 2015, SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak has said.
“The service has actively worked since the very beginning of the war to collect evidence of Russian presence on our territory, in particular, the participation of regular military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of our state,” he told reporters in Cherkasy region on May 12, recalling that the SBU established the involvement of regular Russian troops in the shelling of the Skhidny residential neighborhood of Mariupol in January 2015.
“I want to report that these materials have currently been transferred to the International Court of Justice and sent to 184 Ukrainian institutions abroad and international organizations,” Hrytsak said.
According to him, work is underway to collect evidence of the Russian army’s participation in the shelling of Kramatorsk.
On May 7, Hrytsak said that SBU investigators had established the involvement of regular servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces in a rocket attack on the Skhidny residential district of Mariupol on January 24, 2015, which killed 31 people and injured 117 more.
“During the investigation conducted by our investigators and operatives, it was established and documented that this crime had been committed by regular Russian servicemen. This terrorist attack was carried out by two regular missile divisions of the Russian Armed Forces. From Russian territory the operation was directly led by Chief of Missile Forces and Artillery of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces Major-General Stepan Yaroshchuk and in the temporarily occupied Donetsk the shelling was directed by Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Alexander Tsaplyuk with the call sign ‘Gorets’,” he said.
He said that the SBU would transfer to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) part of the materials on the events in Mariupol in 2015, in particular, intercepted negotiations.
