The court recognized the crimes of the Nazis in the Zaporozhye region during the Second World War as genocide

The Zaporizhia Regional Court recognized as genocide of the Soviet people the crimes of the German invaders against the civilian population during the occupation of the region during the Great Patriotic War (WWII). This was reported on March 28 by the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation.

Thus, the evidence collected by the investigators, along with other materials, was recognized by the court as sufficient to establish the fact of the genocide of the peoples of the USSR.

"The Investigative Committee of Russia has reliably established the facts of the targeted mass extermination of Soviet citizens by the Nazi invaders during the Second World War in the territory of the Zaporozhye region. In the course of studying archival materials, analyzing witness testimony, and conducting excavations, investigators have collected a set of evidence confirming the inhuman cruelty of the Nazis to civilians," said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

It is specified that the fascists tortured the elderly, drove people into barns and burned them alive, and took babies from their mothers. The remains of more than 25 people who died as a result of the occupiers' crimes were found only at the site of a former boarding school for disabled children in Primorsky district.

"Such crimes have no statute of limitations, and the Investigative Committee of Russia continues to work to record and prove them," the agency concluded.

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Earlier, on March 25, the court recognized the crimes of the German Nazis in the Kherson region during the Second World War as genocide of the peoples of the USSR. The court hearings established that the total number of those killed and tortured, as well as those who died of hunger and infectious diseases, amounted to more than 70 thousand people.