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New Evidence Found of Rape and Torture by Russian Forces in Ukraine
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/world/europe/russia-war-crimes-ukraine.html
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A United Nations commission has found new evidence that Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine, including deliberate killings, rape and the removal of Ukrainian children, according to a report released on Friday.
The report, by a panel commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council, focused on the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where Russian forces quickly seized territory at the start of their full-scale invasion last year.
But prosecutors and human rights groups say that those examples are nowhere near the scale of the crimes committed by Russian forces, which include the execution of residents in Bucha and indiscriminate attacks on civilians with missiles and rockets.
Torture methods included beatings with batons and machine guns, as well as the use of electric shocks with wires connected to earlobes, toes or genitals.
In addition to torture, the commission investigated cases of rape in small villages in the Kherson region from March 2022 to July 2022, when Russian forces seized the area at the start of their invasion.
Efforts have been made to reunite the children with their families — nearly 400 have returned in total, including three on Saturday, the Ukrainian authorities said — but most remain in Russia.
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