Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has carried out more than 70 extrajudicial executions of civilians held in custody in the occupied territories of Ukraine. This is stated in the UN report.
From February 24, 2022 to May 23, 2023, the UN monitoring mission was able to confirm the arbitrary detention of more than 800 people.
“We documented the execution of a total of 77 civilians who were arbitrarily detained by the Russian Federation,” Matilda Bogner, head of the UN human rights mission in Ukraine, said at a briefing.
According to the authors of the report, we are talking about 72 men and five women. According to the report, at least one other Russian military detainee died “as a result of torture, inhumane conditions of detention and/or denial of necessary medical care.”
The report also states that Ukraine also violated international law by arbitrarily detaining civilians, but on a much smaller scale.
In March 2023, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reported that as of January 31, it had recorded 133 victims of sexualized violence in Ukraine.
Among the victims of sexualized violence, according to Mathilde Bogner, 85 men, 45 women and three girls. The 109 identified cases of violence “probably were committed by the military, law enforcement agencies and personnel of the penitentiary institutions of the Russian Federation,” the head of the Monitoring Mission noted. At the same time, 24 cases of violence could have occurred through the fault of the Ukrainian side. Bogner also stressed that the violence often occurred during the detention of civilians or prisoners of war, as well as in areas under Russian occupation.
Earlier, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry into Violations in Ukraine documented cases of executions, illegal detention, torture, ill-treatment, rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in the occupied areas of four regions: Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.
In December 2022, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine established 154 facts of sexual violence against Ukrainians by Russian military personnel. Sexual offenses were committed in Ukrainian territories that were occupied by Russian troops.
Last July, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten reported 124 recorded cases of sexual violence in Ukraine. According to her, the available data is only the tip of the iceberg and does not reflect the scale of sexual violence in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Source : currenttime
