“We’re talking war crimes and crimes against humanity here. That means the Russian and Chechen perpetrators will be hunted for the rest of their lives.”
Realistically, probably not. Maybe one or two generals or politicians might be held accountable and the rest, everyone will be happy to forget about. And that’s only if Russia loses in a very big way. If they end in a stalemate or even a minor loss, then nobody is going to want to bother trying to prosecute Russians. They’ll prefer to try to get back to the status quo.
If any of the murdered Ukies are Jewish then the Russians can expect to get a late night visit from Shin Bet.
No indictment. No trial. No prison. They’ll just skip straight to the execution.
The history of war crimes actually being punished is a long and sad one. Many German and Japanese criminals escaped the noose. Others, whose culpability could be reasonably argued, hanged or were imprisoned. In our own country, only one man was tried for war crimes in the entire Civil War: The commander of Andersonville. I can promise you, far more war crimes were committed on both sides in that war.