08-12-2022, 00:06
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Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-...ymyr-zelensky/
https://wapo.st/3VZm91T
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Russia killed 441 civilians extrajudicially in Kyiv area early in war, U.N. finds
Russian forces killed extrajudicially at least 441 civilians outside of Kyiv, in what likely amounted to war crimes, in the first weeks of the invasion of Ukraine, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report released Thursday. The actual number of civilians summarily killed is likely to be “considerably higher,” the report found.
Based on investigations launched after hundreds of bodies of civilians were found following the initial Russian retreat from the Kyiv area in early April, the report documents in brutal detail the violence inflicted on Ukrainians in occupied areas around the capital.
The findings add to mounting evidence that Russian forces have targeted and summarily executed Ukrainian civilians in grave violations of international law.
Witnesses told U.N. investigators that under Russian occupation, anything perceived to constitute support for Ukrainian forces, including camouflage-patterned clothing and text message histories, became grounds for death.
Some Ukrainians were killed while in makeshift detention facilities and were found with their hands tied, gunshot wounds and injuries suggesting torture, according to the report. Other civilians were shot dead in their backyards, in convoys of cars fleeing hostilities, while on bikes or walking to find food or visit relatives.
“There are strong indications that the summary executions documented in the report constitute the war crime of willful killing,” U.N. human rights commissioner Volker Türk, said in a statement Wednesday, during a visit to Ukraine.
The report investigated extrajudicial killings in 102 villages and towns between Feb. 24, the day Russia invaded, and April 6, when its forces retreated from around Kyiv after failing to take the capital. Nearly 90 percent of the civilians killed in these cases were men, in additions 72 women, 20 boys and 8 girls, according to the U.N. findings.
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