“Going back to war crimes, to date 16,486, it seems to me, are open criminal cases.

You understand that tomorrow there will be 200 more.

We can't help but open them, ”Venediktov said on Ukraine-24 channel, TASS reports.

According to the Prosecutor General, 111 suspects are on trial so far.

8 more cases have been sent to court and are under consideration.

Venediktov added that another 623 suspects are on trial for "crimes of aggression": Russian "top officials, politicians, the military" and media figures.

According to the Prosecutor General, a special mechanism of extramural investigations will be applied to them.

On May 23, a court in Kyiv sentenced the first Russian soldier, Vadim Shishimarin, to life in prison for killing a civilian in the Sumy region.

Later, 11.5 years later, two more Russian servicemen, Alexander Babykin and Alexander Ivanov, were found guilty of artillery shelling in the Kharkiv region.