A United Nations commission of inquiry said it had found further evidence of Russian military aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, including rape and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the UN.
“The commission found new evidence that the Russian authorities committed violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law, as well as related crimes in the territories under its control in Ukraine,” the report says.
In particular, we are talking about attacks in the cities of Uman and Kherson. The UN has documented those attacks that target civilian targets:
- residential buildings,
- railway station,
- shops,
- composition for civil use.
Russia strongly denies committing atrocities and attacks on civilians in Ukraine.
Cases of rape “using force or psychological coercion” have also been documented.
“Most of the incidents occurred after perpetrators broke into victims’ homes. Victims reported rape at gunpoint and threats to kill or cause other serious harm to victims or their relatives,” the UN writes.
Evidence was found of the movement of 31 children from Ukraine to Russia in May last year. The commission “concluded that this was an illegal deportation and a war crime.”
Deportation of Ukrainian children
At the end of June, the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya stated that Russia took about 19.5 thousand children from Ukraine. The process of their return is complex and lengthy, because the Russians refuse to cooperate or help in any way.
Let us note that it was precisely because of the deportation of Ukrainian children that the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova.
Russian war crimes
During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army regularly commits war crimes. A number of Western countries condemned the Kremlin for this and promised to punish all those involved in the crimes.
The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a possible war crime by the Russian occupiers , from which a German suffered, in Gostomel, Kiev region.
Western prosecutors and human rights activists, together with Ukrainian colleagues, want to document cases in which Russian occupiers used hunger as a weapon of war . The dossier on all those involved is planned to be sent to the International Criminal Court.
Source : rbc.ua
