Ukraine Investigates Attacks on Grain Ports as Potential War Crimes

The Ukrainian Attorney General's office indicated to Reuters on Thursday that the prosecutor is investigating Russian attacks on Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure since July as potential war crimes. The Attorney General's office stated, "In general, since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces have launched more than 100 attacks on grain infrastructure and ports in Ukraine," noting that "Ukraine is investigating these actions as potential war crimes." Ukrainian authorities are already reviewing over 97,000 reports of suspected war crimes and have charged 220 suspects in local courts. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office, in addition to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, is investigating the campaign of airstrikes on energy infrastructure and facilities in Ukraine during the winter, as well as the attack on the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in the Kherson region, as potential war crimes. For its part, Russia considered the recent attacks on grain infrastructure in Ukraine to be retaliation for a Ukrainian attack on a bridge leading to Crimea, which is used to supply Russian forces in southern Ukraine.