As reported in late May by Fox News, Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova told journalists that there are currently 15,000 ongoing investigations into atrocities committed by Russian troops against the people of Ukraine, with hundreds more to be added. Within the span of just three months, these atrocities include the kidnapping and illegal transfer of children and adults to Russia; torture of Ukrainian civilians; attacks on civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, and shelters; looting of private homes; and too many civilian deaths to count.

The ICC is working with the European Union’s legal branch, Eurojust, and Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland to investigate these war crimes. The U.S. and six other European countries have also launched their own probes. Highly credible reports of atrocities have been pouring in since the war started. CNN reporters have witnessed and verified numerous reports of shocking acts of Russian barbarity and brutality. Young women and girls have been kidnapped by Russian troops, only to disappear—with no word sent to their anxious families—and never return. Russian soldiers have rounded up and summarily executed groups of young men in Ukrainian villages, dumping the bodies without burying them. Many bodies have shown signs of physical torture before execution.

Other reports and testimonies include gang rapes of young girls, the rape of women in front of their children, and, according to the BBC, the mass rape of 25 girls and women, ranging between 14 and 24 years old, in Kyiv. Describing atrocities in another Ukrainian city, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted on April 5, “What we’ve seen in Bucha is not the random act of a rogue unit. This is a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities.”

As the atrocities mount, Restore Ukraine desperately needs funds to provide safe refuge for civilians, treat their injuries, and give them the care, comfort, and warmth that they need to survive the physical and psychological trauma. Rest assured that, by donating to Restore Ukraine, you will be helping to protect, shelter, feed, and heal the countless innocent victims of these atrocities—right there in the war-torn streets, even as the bombs keep falling.