5 hours agoDAS: Concrete data that Russian troops have committed war crimes
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)With the U.S. State Department report documenting human rights practices worldwide, it is said that the Russian armed forces have carried out various war crimes and other atrocities”, since Moscow launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. “There has been [...]
“There have been reliable reports of executions, tortures, rapes, and undisputed attacks that have targeted civilians and civil infrastructure, on the part of Russian forces in Ukraine, which all constitute war crimes”, the annual Human Rights Report for 2022, released Monday by the State Department.
The report also highlights cases of forced deportation of civilians and children from Ukraine to Russia, writes VOA.
The report comes after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for war crimes, to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belovas, Commissioner for Children's Rights at the Office of the Russian Federation, over their doubts about their role in the transfer and illegal deportation of children from occupied Ukrainian territories towards Russia.
Moscow said the arrest warrants are scandalous and have dismissed the possibility that Mr. Putin will appear before the tribunal. Russia does not recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. /abcnews. al
