UN receives daily new information on war crimes in Ukraine

Observers that the UN has in Ukraine to document violations human rights from the very beginning war Receive new information about war crimes every day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said today.

“Every day we receive information about war crimes. The number of civilian casualties, as well as the extensive damage and destruction of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, is off the charts. And I saw it with my own eyes yesterday, in Izyum,” the general said. a high-ranking representative of the organization who traveled over the past 4 days to various areas freed from Ukraine.

The most common crimes related to strength Russian summary executions, torture, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and sexual abuse against children, women and men, he said.

barbaric actions against civilians took place in areas once occupied by Russia, then liberated by Ukrainian troops and now covered by investigators from UN they have access.

“We are working to confirm reports of new killings in these regions, as well as in Kharkiv and Kherson, which were recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces. war crime deliberate killings,” he said of cases where enough evidence had been collected.

Turk, however, also called on the Ukrainian authorities, without mentioning them directly, to investigate any violations that may have been committed by their own military and bring those responsible to justice.

“A violation by one side does not legitimize a violation by the other. The imperative of justice does not disappear because of belonging victim or a criminal,” he said.

<<All complaints about violations of international humanitarian law and human rightswhoever and wherever committed must be investigated and held accountable through a fair and independent judicial process,” the High Commissioner added at a press conference.

He claimed that his agency had no information indicating that Russia conducted a unified investigation of a large number of crimes against the civilian population, for which, by all indications, he is responsible.

Observers are currently UN do not have access to the eastern parts Ukraine who else is busy Russia and that this country claims to have annexed itself.

Turk said he feared the consequences of the coming winter months for Population Ukrainian vulnerable across the country who live “between power outages, without electricity or heat for days.

At the start of winter in Europetemperature in Ukraine They are already below zero.

EFE