title: The crime of genocide
abstract: The history of every country has dark and tragic pages of the past. The scale and intensity of the mass violence that took place on the territories of modern Ukraine are a striking example. These lands became the battlegrounds of two world wars, accompanied by ethnic cleansing, pogroms, deportations, and mass murders. The topic of the Stalinist regime and Nazi crimes stands apart. Finally, at the present stage, Ukraine has become the object of Russian aggression. After Ukraine gained its indepen