Editing Vladimir Putin (section)

== Human right violations ==
{{Stub}}[[File:Kharkiv downtown street destroyed by Russian bombardment.jpg|thumb|Kharkiv downtown street destroyed by Russian bombardment]]His record on human rights violations has been marked by the flattening of Chechnya, the demolition of Georgia, the crackdown of all media, especially independently-owned media that has been critical of the Kremlin such as NTV, the instigation of an armed conflict in eastern Ukraine that culminated in the accidental downing of a civilian aircraft, the bombing of aid convoys, the slew of Kremlin opponents dropping dead from polonium poisoning, Russian soldiers taking long "vacations", and the suppression and abuse of protestors. Interestingly, when proceedings were about to be brought against him to the International Criminal Court for possible [[crimes against humanity]], he immediately withdrew Russia as a member state.
Putin is also heavily involved in the ongoing Syrian Civil War, having supported the incumbent [[Bashar al-Assad]] government of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and since 30 September 2015 also through direct military involvement. The latter marked the first time since the end of the [[Cold War]] that Russia entered an armed conflict outside the borders of the former Soviet Union.

Many well known politicians and people from other categories have compared Vladimir Putin to [[Nazi Germany]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]], as well as Soviet Union leader [[Joseph Stalin]]. It is often related to the activity against Ukraine and the violation of international law. Among them are King Charles III of Britain, Hillary Clinton, Wolfgang Schaeuble, [[Mikheil Saakashvili]], Vladislav Inozemtsev, Zbigniew Brzezinski, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Stephen Harper, Garry Kasparov, Charles Lane, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Dalia Grybauskaite, Bronisław Komorowski, Arkady Babchenko, Savik Shuster, Stephen Fry, Ian Austin, Andrey Piontkovsky, Boris Nemtsov, Nikolay Fyodorov, Carl Bildt, [[Petro Poroshenko]], and Herta Müller. The Crimean speech of the Russian President played a role for some comparisons on the Ukrainian issue.

During its campaign in Ukraine, it has been reported that Russia has violated international law not to use excessively dangerous weapons, such as the Cluster, the Novichok.<ref>https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/ucrania-guerra_la-onu-tiene-informaci%C3%B3n-de-que-rusia-usa-armas-prohibidas-en-ucrania/47423762</ref>
[[File:Місто Буча після звільнення від російських окупантів 01.jpg|thumb|Bucha's massacre]]
The mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said that at least 280 individuals from the city had to be buried in mass graves. Local residents had to bury another 57 bodies in another mass grave. Serhiy Kaplishny, a local coroner who fled but returned, said that as of 3 April, his team had collected more than 100 bodies during and after the fighting (including deaths of soldiers and deaths from natural causes).

He said that before leaving, he had hired a backhoe operator to dig a mass grave near the church, as the morgue was unable to refrigerate bodies due to the lack of electricity, and "It was a horror". He also said that since returning, he had picked up 13 bodies of civilians who had had their arms tied and been shot at close range.

The exact number of people killed is unknown. Fedoruk said at least 300 people had been found dead in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. In an interview with Reuters, deputy mayor Taras Shapravskyi said only 50 of the victims had been confirmed as having been extrajudicially executed. The figure of 300 was later revised to 403 on 12 April.

Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said, "In Bucha alone the death toll is already higher than in Vukovar", referring to the killing of hundreds of Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the Croatian War of Independence. On 13 April 2022, BBC News posted an article saying "at least 500 dead have been found since the Russians left" Bucha.

Vitaly Vinogradov, the Academic Dean of the Kyiv Slavic Evangelical Seminary, was among the dead in Bucha. The body of Zoreslav Zamoysky, a local freelance journalist, was also found in Bucha.[[File:Brutalized Ukrainian Girl.jpg|thumb|Ukrainian 15 years old girl received treatment in Germany]]

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