Juan Miguel Diaz Ferrer is a professor and one of the founders of the International Movement of Russophiles. This article was originally written in Spanish for Ultimas Noticias (Latest News), Venezuela.
Since the Maidan coup in Kiev in 2014 and to this day, Ukrainian Nazi-fascists have not stopped committing crimes against civilians, especially against people of Russian ethno-cultural background. In recent weeks, as the Russian army has been liberating places occupied by the Ukrainian military during a successful offensive, new crimes have been uncovered both in the Donbass and in the formerly occupied parts of the Kursk region.
Here is just one example: the Russian military told RIA Novosti that in the basements of buildings in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Sujan district of the Kursk region they found the corpses of civilians tortured by Ukrainian armed forces. In particular, they were elderly people, including those who were tied up. The Ukrainian military tortured these older Russian citizens who did not have time or the ability to evacuate from the village. They took them into the basement and threw several grenades at them. The press service of the Russian Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti that on January 17th the Russian investigators had completed the evaluation of more than 50 criminal cases on atrocities committed by the Ukrainian military in the Kursk Region.
In addition, some Russian soldiers wounded on the battlefield were killed off by Ukrainian drones, which constitutes a war crime, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report on the situation in Ukraine between September and November 2024. The OHCHR recalls that under international humanitarian law, a person who is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated as a result of injury or illness, and thus unable to defend himself or herself, is considered out-of-action as long as he or she refrains from any hostile moves. “Attacking a person, when it is known that he or she is not an active combatant is a serious violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.”
The very crimes of the Nazi-fascist regime in Kyiv once again confirm the necessity and legality of the special military operation conducted by Russia to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine and eliminate threats emanating from its territory.