Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022)

Large-scale operations by the security services of the Russian Federation involving cyberespionage, data interception (including through the hacking of public Wi-Fi networks), and the covert deployment of destructive software against Ukrainian organizations and citizens^[3][4].
Massed cyberattacks on Ukraine's information and communication infrastructure using data-wiping malware directly during the invasion^[5].

Systematic cyberattacks on energy companies and municipal district heating enterprises amid the full-scale war, aimed at cutting off electricity and heat supplies to Ukrainian civilian consumers^[6][7].
Systematic massed strikes with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones (Shahed) against generation facilities (the Zmiiv CHP plant, Kharkiv CHP-5, the Trypillia thermal power plant, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) and transformer substations to cause blackouts^[8].

Total information control and a legislative ban inside the Russian Federation on calling the invasion a "war" (use of the euphemism "special military operation") in order to conceal crimes and create an alternative reality^[2]. Information cover for energy terror: false claims by the authorities of the Russian Federation that the strikes on the power grid were a "response" to the attack on the Crimean Bridge, despite evidence that the missile strikes had been prepared in advance^[9].

Deliberate restoration of old Soviet or imperial names to captured cities and streets (in particular, the renaming of Bakhmut to Artemovsk) in order to erase Ukrainian national memory and visually integrate them into the space of the Russian Federation.

Large-scale plundering of economic resources: the removal of expensive industrial equipment (including steel from the Azovstal plant), illegal extraction of mineral resources, and the theft of more than 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain^[5].

Deliberate mass killings of people without regard to their ethnic origin, solely on the basis of their Ukrainian citizenship and affiliation with the Ukrainian state^[2].

Creation in the occupied territories of a large-scale network of filtration camps for interrogations, the identification of pro-Ukrainian citizens, their isolation, and terror^[2][9].

Coercion of residents of the occupied territories (Mariupol, Kherson, and others) into obtaining Russian passports. Refusal of the aggressor's passport entails the threat of being deprived of housing, medical care, and basic social services.

Organization of the mass deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus for their subsequent cultural assimilation. For these crimes, the International Criminal Court officially issued an arrest warrant for V. Putin. Cultural figures of the Russian Federation have taken and continue to take part in the program of cultural assimilation of Ukrainian children^[10]. The program of taking children away in many ways resembles the historical precedent of child abduction by Nazi Germany, above all in the territory of occupied Poland^[11].

Deliberate, brutal extermination of civilians in the occupied territories (in particular, more than a thousand local residents were killed in Bucha and its environs)^[1].

Invasion by the regular army of the Russian Federation and massive missile and air strikes on Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and other Ukrainian cities in the early morning of February 24, 2022^[1].

Open nuclear blackmail by the leadership of the Russian Federation and the armed seizure by its troops of the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants to create a global threat of radiation catastrophe^{[2] [5]}.

The holding in the fall of 2022 of fictitious 'referendums' conducted under armed force in the occupied territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts to create a pseudo-legal pretext for their annexation^[5].

Systematic plundering of historical and cultural heritage, archaeological theft, and the mass removal of the collections of Ukrainian museums from the occupied territories to the Russian Federation^[5].

The practice of "urbicide" — the deliberate erasure of entire Ukrainian cities from the face of the earth (for example, Mariupol), the destruction of infrastructure, and the entombment of the dead in concrete in the foundations of the ruins^[2]. The deliberate mining and demolition of the Kakhovka HPP dam on June 6, 2023, which qualifies as a war crime and ecocide. The destruction of the dam led to the flooding of about 80 settlements; 16,000 people found themselves in the disaster zone, which physically forced the population to leave the territory^[8].