A total of around 133,000 cases of Russian war crimes in Ukraine are currently under investigation, Klaus Hoffmann, the German advisor to the Ukrainian prosecutor general, has said in remarks published on Sunday. The figure was “a huge increase,” Hoffmann told the Neue Osnabrücke Zeitung. “Many of them are extremely comprehensively documented,” he added. The figure is up from 56,000 cases at the end of 2022. Hoffmann pointed to Russia aerial attacks on civilian targets and forced adoptions of Ukrainian children as examples of war crimes. While not wishing to pre-empt a legal judgement, he expr…