{"id":1778094,"date":"2022-12-16T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778094"},"modified":"2022-12-16T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:33:34","slug":"congress-to-track-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-to-track-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress To Track Evidence of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-to-track-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Congress is tracking and codifying evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, a move meant to set the stage for future legal proceedings against Moscow&#8217;s army and Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are putting Russian troops on notice that the deliberate rape, torture, and slaughter of civilians in Ukraine will not go unanswered,&#8221; Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the incoming head of the House Foreign Relations Committee, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> following the passage this week of legislation he helped craft. The bill, included in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a yearly spending bill, is among the first official efforts by U.S. lawmakers to document crimes being committed on the battlefield in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul says the legislation will help America prosecute Russian soldiers in a future war crimes tribunal. Ten months into the unprovoked war that has galvanized Western nations against Russia, more than 6,490 Ukrainian civilians have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2022\/11\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-7-november-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed<\/a>, another 9,972 have been injured, and 6.6 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrefugees.org\/emergencies\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced<\/a>, according to official estimates. Human rights organizations allege somewhere around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/10\/1138710652\/russian-war-crimes-ukraine-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50,000<\/a> war crimes committed by Russian forces, including the bombings of hospitals and schools, as well as gang rapes and other forms of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blood is on Vladimir Putin&#8217;s hands, and the world is watching,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;These thugs have kidnapped hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainian children and must be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act requires the president to report to Congress on all &#8220;atrocities committed&#8221; since February 2022, when Russia launched its unprovoked invasion. The White House will have 90 days to produce and furnish this report to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>It will include information on U.S. efforts to &#8220;collect, analyze, and preserve evidence related to war crimes and other atrocities committed during the invasion,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/7276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation<\/a>. The White House must also detail how it can use this information for a domestic, foreign, or international court tribunal related to these crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation focuses on some of the worst alleged Russian war crimes. It refers to Russia&#8217;s war as a &#8220;premeditated, unprovoked, unjustified, and unlawful full-scale invasion of Ukraine.&#8221; Congress wants to document Moscow&#8217;s deliberate targeting of civilians, including attacks on hospitals, schools, and shelters, such as one bombing of a Mariupol-based theater that was serving as a shelter and was explicitly labeled as containing children.<\/p>\n<p>Other crimes of interest to Congress include &#8220;unlawful civilian deportations,&#8221; &#8220;the taking of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is tracking and codifying evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, a move meant to set the stage for future legal proceedings against Moscow&#8217;s army and Russian president Vladimir Putin.<br \/>\nThe post Congress To Track Evidence of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1778097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,4402,5999,4913,3965,4319,6991,6696],"class_list":["post-1778094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-congress","tag-crimes","tag-evidence","tag-russian","tag-track","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}