Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine: actions of Russian military in Mariupol can qualify as genocide

“What happens in Mariupol is no longer war crimes … The war has the rules, but here is already out of all rules. I look at it in terms of the possibility of the qualifications of the genocide, when the whole city is hostage. Where people are without water, without food, without heat. Where it is not possible to leave. Where the columns who are trying to leave, shoot. Where is destroyed, and even the Russian minister of Lavrov, the hospital, “she noted.

The Prosecutor General emphasized that the adults and children were deported from Mariupol, and therefore the law enforcement officers opened two deportation cases.

“A separate large – about deportation from Ukraine and a separate one – about the deportation of children. More than two thousand children were deported only from Mariupol. This is what at all? Is it just a war crime? It is much more than a war crime. So as a prosecutor I am very Carefully talk about the possibility of qualifying as a genocide, but as a citizen, I understand perfectly, what happens to our people, “Venediktov added.