Crawshaw said more arrest warrants against Russian officials may follow in 2026, possibly for crimes such as torture or executions of prisoners of war, or starvation of civilians during the attack on Mariupol in 2022

According to UN data, 2025 was the deadliest year of the war for Ukrainian civilians since 2022, with more than 2,500 people killed and over twelve thousand injured

A war crime of staggering proportions is currently unfolding in full public view across Ukraine as Russia methodically bombs the countrys utilities in a calculated bid to freeze millions of civilians in their own homes and spark a humanitarian catastrophe

Many of these deaths were due to a spike in Russian missile and drone strikes on civilian targets including residential buildings, hospitals, and a childrens playground

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, warned that Russias occupation of Europes largest nuclear power plant has turned the facility into a military shieldand a potential catastrophe

But Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicted in 2023 for the war crime of abducting children from occupied areas of Ukraine, has not been charged in relation to his countrys sustained campaign

An October 2025 United Nations investigation into this drone terror found that Russia was guilty of systematically coordinated actions designed to drive Ukrainians out of their homes, and concluded that the Kremlins actions in southern Ukraine qualified as the crimes against humanity of murder and of forcible transfer of civilians

Eurasia Center eventsPutin is dramatically escalating attacks on Ukraines civilian population because he cannot win the war on the battlefield

Follow us on social media and support our work Image A resident warms up next to fire in front of a food truck of veterans of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a power blackout, after critical civil infrastructure was hit by recent Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russias attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 26, 2026. (REUTERSValentyn Ogirenko)

By current estimates, more than 65 percent of Ukraines power generation capacity has been damaged or destroyed