Chief Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko declared that data pertaining to the Russian Federation's assaults on Ukraine's power grid was dispatched to the International Criminal Court. These aggressions, occurring from July 2025 to February 2026, led to the demise of 11 individuals and wounded 68 citizens.
Records concerning the Russian Federation's strikes on Ukraine's energy sector have been forwarded to the International Criminal Court, as stated by Chief Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko this Wednesday on social networks, UNN reports.
An informational message was submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court concerning the Russian Federation's offensives on Ukrainian energy installations from July 2025 to February 2026
– Kravchenko penned.
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The dossier, according to Kravchenko, was crafted by the Prosecutor General's Office in conjunction with the Main Investigative Division of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Joint Agency Working Group of Military Experts, in accordance with Article 15 of the Rome Statute of the ICC.
“During this year's cold season, attacks orchestrated by the uppermost military-political command of the Russian Federation were aimed at all kinds of energy utilities across most areas of Ukraine,” the Chief Prosecutor highlighted.
These offensives, he clarified, were executed as sustained widespread blended strikes utilizing terrestrial, aerial, and maritime-based weaponry. “Their severity eclipses the combined preceding intervals of extensive attacks from October 2022 to March 2023 and from March 2024 to March 2025,” the Chief Prosecutor conveyed.
According to the Chief Prosecutor, “the entire technological sequence of the power framework was impacted – from origination to primary relay and allocation.” “The heating plants, water-powered power stations, combined heat and power plants, and circulation grids suffered impairments. The amassed consequence of the barrages, considering meteorological circumstances, rendered this operation more methodical and devastating than earlier instances. Almost every dweller of Ukraine perceived the fallout,” Kravchenko stated.
As a consequence of rocket assaults on power facilities during the aforementioned timeframe, 11 non-combatants perished, and 68 sustained wounds.
– the Chief Prosecutor noted.
Kravchenko underscored: “These attacks did not and could not furnish any strategic advantage. Their intention is to instill dread in the populace and engender untenable existence circumstances. We deem the adversary incursions as a widespread and methodical offense that exhibits the indications of atrocities against humanity.”
The ICC Prosecutor's Office has been apprised of the timeline of the aggressions, their aftermaths, potentially implicated units of the Russian Armed Forces, and representatives of the Russian military-political echelons who might have issued directives. The dossier has been transmitted to assess the potential for broadening the accusations against Russian functionaries who are already the focal point of the ICC Prosecutor's Office's scrutiny, as well as to pinpoint other individuals complicit in transgressions under the ICC's mandate.
– Kravchenko disclosed.
As per his statement, the endeavor of amassing and arranging evidence is in progress. Such proof can be furnished at the behest of the ICC Prosecutor's Office in accordance with the protocol stipulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine and the Rome Statute of the ICC.
“We express gratitude to the ICC Prosecutor's Office for its steadfast stance on prosecuting those accountable for worldwide offenses and anticipate sustained efficacious collaboration to ensure the inevitability of retribution,” Kravchenko remarked.