Kochemazov Viktor Nikolaevich

Viktor Nikolaevich Kochemazov is a Rear Admiral, Commander of a naval base — military unit 99608 — Novorossiysk Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.

According to open registries, while serving as Commander of the Novorossiysk Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, he exercised direct command of the naval base, planning, organization, and leadership of the combat use of subordinate ship formations, coastal missile and artillery troops, and other units.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that this individual is involved in organizing, directing, and ensuring the execution of criminal orders for conducting combat operations at sea and carrying out missile strikes by ships and coastal missile systems against densely populated cities, energy and civilian infrastructure facilities that are not military targets.

These actions led to mass casualties among the civilian population and large-scale destruction, constituting an integral part of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and simultaneously bearing signs of violations of the laws and customs of war.

Furthermore, the individual did not exercise the right to refuse to carry out a clearly criminal order, the obligation not to execute which is stipulated by international law, thereby becoming an accomplice to the crime.