The UN concluded that Russia had committed a “wide range” of war crimes against Ukraine, including premeditated killings, systematic torture and the deportation of children.
Eric Mese, head of the UN-backed independent international commission of inquiry into Ukraine, said on March 16 that he found no evidence of genocide while investigating human rights violations during the Russian invasion. The Guardian writes about it.
“We did not find that there was a genocide in Ukraine,” he said.
According to Mese, the team continues to study the evidence, and some “aspects may raise questions” about whether there was a genocide of Ukrainians.
Also, according to the newspaper, the UN said that Russia had committed a “wide range” of war crimes to Ukraine, including deliberate killings, systematic torture and deportation of children.
The investigation says that the RF Armed Forces committed war crimes “disproportionately and indiscriminately.” The commission also called repeated attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of people were left without heat and electricity in the coldest months, as potential crimes against humanity.
Also, as the commission stated, the Russians in the occupied territories tortured Ukrainians with electric current using a military telephone. Such torture was called “call to Putin.”
It is reported that the conclusions of the commission were based on more than 500 interviews, as well as satellite images of places of detention, mass graves. For the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a report on Russian war crimes in Ukraine has already been prepared.
Recall that Lavrov complained to the UN about the “persecution” of the UOC-MP and urged not to evict the monks from the Lavra in Kyiv. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote letters to UN Secretary General António Guterres and OSCE head Buyar Osmani. The Russian diplomat claims that repressions are being carried out in Ukraine against the “canonical” Orthodox Church.
The UN Secretary General also spoke about the demilitarization of the ZNPP. António Guterres, during a briefing on March 8 with President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the ultimate goal of the war should be a just peace in Ukraine.
