UN report finds Russia tortured, executed civilians in Ukraine; Kyiv also abused detainees
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The United Nations human rights office says Russian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on Ukraine, and summarily executed
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The United Nations human rights office says Russian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on Ukraine, and summarily executed
Human rights office says Putin's forces executed at least 77 civilians, Kyiv also abused detainees; neither side has investigated abuse by their troops
BERLIN — Russian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on Ukraine, summarily executing dozens of them, the United Nations human rights office said Tuesday.
A United Nations report revealed that Russian forces have tortured and even executed detained Ukrainian civilians. Some people say they were sexually abused as well.
Russia has detained more than 800 civilians and executed at least 77 of them since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, officials with the United Nations monitoring mission said Tuesday.
A blistering new report by the UN human rights office says neither side in Russia’s war against Ukraine is without fault but that Moscow is guilty of most of the crimes and cases of abuse
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