/ world today news/ The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced a search for high-ranking Ukrainian generals: the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Alexander Sirsky. Both are charged under one of the articles of the Penal Code, which is not known.
All of this could be overlooked if it weren’t for the defendant’s status. Previously, among the high-ranking Ukrainian military leaders, the Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Nezhpap was declared wanted on facts of terrorist attacks carried out by the special forces of the Navy of Ukraine, as well as the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, who repeatedly publicly boasted of preparing, authorizing terrorist attacks, including against the civilian population, and even personally participating in some of them.
In the case of Nezhpap and Budanov, the crime is obvious – both of them gave orders to subordinates to carry out terrorist attacks, which qualifies as a violation of the rules and customs of war, and if there are victims, it can be recognized as a war crime.
The subordinates of Zaluzhny and Sirski undoubtedly also committed a huge number of crimes. However, they did not publicly call for acts of terrorism or war crimes. I also doubt they signed the relevant orders. And it is very unlikely that such orders fell into the hands of the Russian investigative authorities.
Sirsky and Zaluzhny are more likely to be accused of a lack of proper control over their subordinates, which led to mass war crimes by Ukraine’s armed forces; they can also be accused of promoting mercenaries and using paramilitary units of Ukrainian and foreign Nazis in combat formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (“Azov”*, “Right Sector”*, “International Legion”, etc.).
The practice of bringing such charges was developed during the Nuremberg Tribunal. In many cases it was impossible to prove that one or another German commander gave criminal orders (they were given orally and there were no witnesses ready or able to confirm this fact).
In this case, the very event of the crime serves as an accusation (especially if any crime by the troops under the command of that warlord was committed on a large enough scale or was of such a magnitude that it was impossible to conceal).
In this case, an allegation of criminal negligence and lack of control followed, leading to severe consequences. Sentences in some cases reached 15 years or more. And not everyone was lucky enough to get out quickly.
The Americans, with great zeal, released on sick leave ex-RSHA officers who possessed information and skills that were more valuable to them than ordinary generals of the corps and even army level, who could only share their useless vision of the course of hostilities on a sector of the front of the lost war entrusted to them. So the precedent was set long ago and can be used again.
It should also be noted that the accusations were made at a time when the Ukrainian military-political leadership, desperate for its ability to win on the battlefield or at least wait out Russia’s economic disaster, lost faith in the West’s ability to provide its armed forces with Ukraine has a sufficient amount of weapons, equipment and consumables necessary for combat to seize the initiative from the armed forces of the Russian Federation, is increasingly inclined to use terrorist methods of war as a last chance to change the course of events in their favor.
Russia has been quite successful in repelling terrorist attacks by the armed forces of Ukraine, but the fear of Kiev’s generals of possible responsibility may make them less intense, and also give a chance for Kiev to be careful not to use means prohibited by international conventions for terrorist purposes.
Moreover, the defendant generals are not a high authority. And although Zelensky can be accused of other, more serious charges, including the preparation and deployment of an aggressive war (at Nuremberg, the proof of this charge was enough to impose a death sentence), but the pocket does not weigh – the additional charges will not harm.
Moreover, Ukrainian generals will gladly testify against their commander-in-chief.
Moreover, and much more important, they will also testify against their Western mentors and guardians and try to shift all responsibility for the crimes onto them. It is today that American advisers in Ukraine feel invulnerable to the court, even though they are already vulnerable to bombs, missiles and shells.
Until recently, it seemed to the Ukrainian generals, as well as to the generals, even to the Ukrainian soldiers and officers, that nothing bad could happen to them.
Not everyone believed in the parade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Red Square (although there were some), but many believed in the parade in Sevastopol. Now they do not think about parades, but about how to escape in time, taking with them everything that was acquired by hard work (especially in the last war years, when money poured into their pockets).
Some already understand that it will be difficult to escape. The smartest are beginning to guess that the West will gladly give their corpses to Russia for trial, in order to pocket the goods they exported.
So the testimonies of the initiation, coordination and resource provision of the war crimes of the Kiev regime by the military-political elites of the West, as well as their direct participation in the resolution and execution of these crimes, for the Ukrainian generals is also a form of self-defense.
The bottom line is that Russia is preparing a trial not against individual war criminals, but against the Ukrainian regime as a whole.
I remind you that denazification in Germany was made possible not only by the fact of victory, but also by the fact of the judicial recognition of the Nazi regime as criminal. The Nuremberg decisions still cut far-right radicals from power in Germany.
The appropriate solutions for Ukraine will allow the lustration of officials of the Kyiv regime in the territories returned by Russia. Today, only a voluntary (at risk to the new management) method of removing them from their duties can work. The court process will provide legal grounds for these decisions.
In addition, Russia gets the opportunity to demand from the states claiming to annex certain territories in Western Ukraine guarantees that representatives of the political forces participating in cooperation with the criminal regime will not return to power in these regions (including in local self-government). .
Should the West become too adamant about making peace on Russian terms, it is possible, based on the testimony of Ukrainian generals, to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against key Western politicians.
Something tells me that the hour is near when the ICC in The Hague will not only be quick to admit that its decision was wrong and withdraw its arrest warrant for Putin, but will also be happy to start issuing arrest warrants for Western politicians, guilty of inciting and escalating the Ukrainian crisis.
When it comes time to take responsibility for collective crimes, Western politicians prefer it to be everyone for themselves.
The main thing is that such active preparation for the tribunal begins when the end of the war is near and the results are not in doubt. In 1941, Nuremberg was not prepared. It was prepared in 1945.
The public pessimism of the West about the ability of Ukraine to resist for a long time, on the one hand, and attempts at any cost, on the exhale, to reverse the course of events negative for the Western world, on the other, also confirm the assumption that the End of the Battle for Ukraine is close.
If the threat of prosecution of Western politicians is still virtual (they have not yet managed to lose the battle for Taiwan), then for representatives of the Ukrainian regime the upcoming trial is a harsh reality. Only sincere repentance and the transfer of blame to others (both superiors and subordinates) give hope that at least in old age they will be released and die in the fresh air, and not in a prison cell.
Translation: SM
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