Sergey Kobylash
Sergey Kobylash | |
---|---|
Native name | Сергей Иванович Кобылаш |
Born | (1965-04-01) 1 April 1965 (age 59) Odesa, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Soviet Union Russia |
Service | Soviet Air Forces Russian Air Force |
Years of service | 1990–present |
Rank | Lieutenant general |
Commands | Long-Range Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces |
Sergey Ivanovich Kobylash (Russian: Сергей Иванович Кобылаш; born 1 April 1965) is a Russian military officer who serves as a lieutenant general and commander of the Long-Range Aviation branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces.[1]
Biography
[edit]For several years, including the period from July 2019 to March 2023, Kobylash was commander of the Long-Range Aviation branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces.[2][1]
On 5 March 2024, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Admiral Viktor Sokolov and Kobylash, as part of its Ukraine investigation, citing his alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity of directing attacks at civilian objects, causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects and inhumane acts during the Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure and electrical grid, all under the Rome Statute.[1][3][4]
On 10 September 2024 the Ukrainian government accused Kobylash of ordering the attack on the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv on 8 July.[5] Ukraine’s SBU security service said in a statement that “Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash held the post of long-range aviation commander for the Russian aerospace forces at the time, and after delivering this strike, was promoted and appointed commander of the Russian aerospace forces.”[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c International Criminal Court press release about arrest warrants against Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, International Criminal Court, 5 March 2024, Wikidata Q124748309, archived from the original on 5 March 2024
- ^ Russian-Chinese air patrol raises tension in Korean Peninsula, Al Jazeera English, 24 July 2019, Wikidata Q124757603, archived from the original on 7 March 2024
- ^ "Russia/Ukraine: ICC issues arrest warrants for top Russian commanders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity". Amnesty International. 5 March 2024.
- ^ "ICC issues arrest warrants for top Russian commanders". BBC News. 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Ukraine identifies Russian general suspected of ordering strike on Kyiv children's hospital".
- ^ "Ukraine Blames Russian General Wanted by ICC for Deadly Children's Hospital Strike".
External links
[edit]- Media related to Sergey Kobylash at Wikimedia Commons
Italics and (*) indicate that a person was convicted by the ICC and that the conviction remains valid; a name in (parentheses) indicates that charges were dropped or a conviction was overturned; † indicates a person deceased before or during trial; (x) after a name indicates that the case was closed by the ICC because of a national-level trial of the accused | |
Central African Republic | |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
Darfur, Sudan | |
Georgia | |
Ivory Coast | |
Kenya | |
Libya | |
Mali | |
Uganda | |
Ukraine |
- 1965 births
- Fugitives wanted by the International Criminal Court
- Fugitives wanted on war crimes charges
- People indicted for crimes against humanity
- Living people
- Russian military personnel of the Syrian civil war
- Russian military personnel of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian war criminals
- Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni
- 20th-century Russian military personnel
- 21st-century Russian military personnel
- People from Odesa