According to a UN Human Rights Council investigative committee, Russian troops committed numerous war crimes during the war in Ukraine. These include premeditated murders, attacks on civilians, unlawful detention, rape and the abduction of children.
The forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine is a war crime according to UN investigators, the report said in Geneva on Thursday. The large-scale deportation of children “contradicts international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime,” the researchers said. More than 16,000 children have been trafficked from Ukraine to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February, according to the Ukrainian government.
Crimes against humanity – on both sides
In addition, waves of attacks by Russian forces on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and the use of torture may constitute crimes against humanity. The Ukrainian armed forces can also be criticized in some cases. Arbitrary attacks and two cases of torture of Russian prisoners of war are war crimes, the commission said.
“Many of the premeditated murders, illegal detentions, rapes and acts of sexual violence were committed in the context of searches aimed at locating Ukrainian military supporters or finding weapons,” the report said. The arbitrarily arrested people were often held in overcrowded cells by the Russian army under the worst possible conditions.
“In one case, ten elderly people died due to the inhumane conditions in a school basement, while the other detainees, including children, shared the same room with the bodies of the deceased,” the report said. In the case of rapes, family members, including children, were forced to watch the crime.
Detailed research
According to its own statements, the commission traveled to Ukraine eight times for the investigations and visited 56 cities and settlements. In addition, graves, places of detention and torture were inspected and photographs and satellite images assessed. A total of 600 people were interviewed. According to UN figures, more than 8,000 civilians have been killed and more than 13,000 injured since the start of the war. However, these numbers likely only reflected a portion of the real numbers, it said
Source: Krone
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