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Russia’s top investigator says Ukrainian attacks have killed nearly 1,500 civilians in Russian regions since 2022. In an interview with TASS ahead of Russia’s Investigative Officers’ Day, Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin said that 54 Russian regions had been targeted, with 1,472 civilians killed, including 45 children. Another 6,754 people were injured, including 405 minors.

Coverage Comparison

The figures come from two interviews Bastrykin gave to TASS, Russia’s state news agency. In the first, he detailed the human toll of attacks on Russian regions. In a second interview, he discussed criminal proceedings against Ukrainian military personnel.

The numbers are not broken down by region or time period beyond the general reference to since 2022. The reports do not mention any attacks in the past 24 hours or provide a timeline for the most recent incidents.

Key Claims

  • Ukrainian attacks have targeted 54 Russian regions since 2022, with 1,472 civilians killed and 6,754 injured, including 45 children killed and 405 minors injured.
  • Investigators have opened 5,347 criminal cases involving attacks on Russian regions.
  • Russian courts have handed down guilty verdicts against 1,209 Ukrainian military personnel for crimes including murder of civilians, cruel treatment of the civilian population, and mercenarism.
  • Eighty-three Ukrainian military personnel have been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against civilians.
The figures come from Bastrykin’s interview with TASS, which he gave ahead of Russia’s Investigative Officers’ Day. He said the attacks documented in the criminal cases included artillery and missile strikes, drone attacks, and cross-border incursions “carried out by Ukrainian nationalists.”

Coverage Comparison

The information about the scale of Ukrainian attacks and the number of civilian casualties was reported by TASS, which interviewed Bastrykin. The same agency separately reported on the court verdicts, also quoting Bastrykin. According to the first report, Ukrainian attacks have targeted 54 Russian regions since 2022, with 1,472 civilians killed, including 45 children, and 6,754 people injured, including 405 minors. The investigation has opened 5,347 criminal cases.

The second report focused on the judicial outcome of these cases. Bastrykin said that 1,132 criminal cases had been completed, and that courts had examined 927 cases on their merits. Guilty verdicts were handed down against 1,209 Ukrainian military personnel, he said, for crimes that included murdering civilians, cruel treatment of the civilian population, and mercenarism.

Key Claims

  • Casualty figures: Since 2022, Ukrainian attacks have killed 1,472 civilians, including 45 children, and injured 6,754 people, including 405 minors, according to Bastrykin’s interview with TASS.
  • Geographic scope: The attacks targeted 54 Russian regions, with 5,347 criminal cases opened, Bastrykin said.
  • Convictions: Russian courts have handed down guilty verdicts against 1,209 Ukrainian military personnel for crimes against civilians, including murder and mercenarism, as reported by Bastrykin.
  • Life sentences: 83 Ukrainian military personnel have been sentenced to life imprisonment for what Bastrykin described as “heinous crimes” against civilians.
Bastrykin’s comments highlight the conflict’s human cost as seen from the Russian perspective. He said the guilty verdicts would serve as a basis for finding that the military and political leadership of Ukraine had committed crimes against humanity. No independent confirmation of these figures was provided in the reports.