Ukraine submits evidence to ICC on Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has submitted a communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) detailing systematic Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities from July 2025 to February 2026.

Kravchenko wrote on Facebook that the strikes, orchestrated by Russia’s senior military and political leadership, targeted all types of energy infrastructure across most regions of the country. The attacks involved prolonged, massive combined strikes using land-, air-, and sea-based weapons.

“Their intensity exceeds the combined scale of previous mass attacks from October 2022 to March 2023 and from March 2024 onward,” the Prosecutor General noted.

Damage affected the entire energy supply chain—from generation to main transmission and distribution—impacting thermal, hydro, and combined heat and power plants, as well as distribution networks. Weather conditions compounded the cumulative effect, making the campaign particularly destructive.

Eleven civilians were killed, and 68 were injured during the attacks in this period.

“The ICC Prosecutor’s Office has been informed of the chronology of the attacks, their consequences, the Russian Armed Forces units potentially involved, and the senior military and political officials who may have issued orders. The submission is intended to consider extending charges against Russian officials already under investigation and to identify other individuals potentially responsible for crimes under ICC jurisdiction,” Kravchenko said.

Collection and systematisation of evidence is ongoing.

By Jeyhun Aghazada