UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday that both sides in the Ukraine conflict violated applicable international norms during the war, although Russian forces did so on a much larger scale.
“While we should still have access to territories occupied by Russian troops, we have documented that both sides have committed violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” he said, presenting his office’s latest report on the situation in Ukraine.
“Although on a much smaller scale, it also seems likely that the Ukrainian armed forces have not fully met” those standards in the country’s eastern territories that are Russia he wants them to be under his complete control and where he concentrates his military capabilities.
Michelle Bachelet mentioned that the security services Ukraine and the National Police reportedly arrested about a thousand people suspected of supporting Russian forces and their militias.
“We are concerned that the arrests are not being made in accordance with the obligations Ukraine. We also recorded twelve cases of possible enforced disappearances by the Ukrainian security forces,” he added.
More than 4 thousand civilians were killed
The UN Human Rights Office has documented 4,889 civilian deaths, including 335 children, although it is stressed that the true figure could be much higher.
Most of the deaths occurred as a result of heavy artillery shelling of settlements.
“Despite the fact that the number of civilian casualties as a result of the use of these weapons is indisputable, the Russian armed forces continue to act in the same spirit with predictable consequences for the civilian population and its infrastructure,” he lamented. Michelle Bachelet.
Separately, his office reviewed 28 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, including cases of rape, gang rape, torture and forced public exposure.
Most of the incidents were committed in areas controlled by the Russian military, he said, but there were also reports of cases in areas controlled by the Ukrainian government.
(As reported by EFE)
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