8 hours agoUN: Russia's attacks on Ukraine's Herson fears constitute war crime
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The Russian Army has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by fearing civilian targets in the southern Ukrainian region of Herson, according to a new United Nations report. The report by the Independent International Commission on Investigation in Ukraine published on May 28th is the latest evidence that [...]
The report by the Independent International Commission on Investigations in Ukraine published on May 28th is the latest evidence to testify to possible crimes committed by Russia's civil or military authorities in Ukraine.
Russia's “Armed Forces have committed crimes against humanity through murder and war crimes attacking civilians, through a pattern of intimidation attacks that have lasted for months and targeted civilians on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Herson”, the commission report says.
At the end of 2022, several months after the full occupation began, Ukrainian forces managed to partially repel Russian troops from the region of Herson. Russian forces withdrew from the western banks of the Dnieper River eastward, which is part of the Herson region.
Since then, Russian troops have continued to bomb towns and villages on the opposite coast, including the city of Harrison. In 2023, Ukrainian forces tried to build a point of support on the east coast of Dnieper to further push Russian troops, but this effort failed.
Nearly 150 civilians have been killed in the campaign of intimidation attacks that, according to the commission, began in the summer of 2017; and hundreds of others have been injured many while carrying out their daily affairs inside or outside their homes. Fear operators used real-time video to track and hit civilians, said the report.
Even ambulances, which are protected under international law, have been targeted by these attacks.
Russian “attacks have been carried out with the main aim of spreading terror among the civilian population, violating international humanitarian law”, the expert panel, operating within the United Nations Human Rights Council, said.
The International Criminal Court, which operates independently by the United Nations, has pressed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against President Vladimir Putin and a senior Kremlin adviser to oversee the forcibly displacement of tens of thousands of children from the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.
The tribunal has also pressed charges of war crimes against two senior Russian military officers for monitoring missile attacks and fearing civilian targets in Ukraine, such as electrical networks and residences. / REL/
