“In relation to the remedy of Ukrainian prisoners of struggle, we’re additionally deeply involved by the abstract execution of 15 Ukrainian prisoners of struggle shortly after being captured by Russian armed forces,” Bogner stated. “The Wagner Group — army and safety contractors — perpetrated 11 of those executions.”
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It additionally documented 5 circumstances during which Ukrainian POWs had died after being tortured or in any other case ill-treated, and 4 circumstances of loss of life on account of an absence of medical consideration throughout internment.
The report discovered that whereas torture and ill-treatment of POWs came about on either side, it was way more frequent in opposition to Ukrainians — greater than 9 in 10 of interviewees reported such abuse— than in opposition to Russians, about half of whom testified to such mistreatment.
In its replace on rights abuses affecting different teams, the rights workplace stated youngsters from the town of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine have been despatched to “summer season camps” in Russia with their mother and father’ consent however weren’t returned dwelling as anticipated after the holiday interval. A number of elements of Kharkiv province have been occupied by Russia final yr earlier than Ukraine’s army reclaimed them in a late summer season counter-offensive.
Some 200 youngsters despatched to a camp within the Russian metropolis of Krasnodarskyi Krai, remained after the summer season and have been enrolled in an area college, based on the second report. The replace famous that Russian authorities stated in October that as many as 2500 youngsters from Ukraine have been residing in non permanent lodging facilities in Russia, and a few had remained there.
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However the rights workplace cautioned that it remained unclear what number of unaccompanied youngsters have been positioned in camps, non permanent lodging or institutionalised care in Russia, in addition to what number of youngsters have been transferred there with their mother and father.
Russian strikes kill civilians
Lengthy-range Russian bombardment killed not less than 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in a number of elements of Ukraine, as a Kremlin official boasted that its forces have been ready to repel an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive this spring.
5 individuals died in Kostiantynivka after a missile struck an assist station the place residents hard-pressed by the struggle might heat up, recharge their cellphones and get meals.
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Prosecutors stated the Russians attacked with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. The civilians who died have been refugees, based on Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Because the largely artillery struggle of the winter months stretches into its second spring, Russian forces additionally used air-launched missiles, exploding drones and gliding bombs to assault a number of areas, Ukrainian air power spokesman Yurii Ihnat stated.
Two civilians have been killed and 9 have been wounded within the city of Bilopillia in Sumy province by an in a single day rocket and artillery barrage and airstrikes, officers within the northeastern area stated.
In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling killed one particular person within the metropolis of Kherson and killed one other particular person and wounded 4 others within the city of Bilozerka. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited that area on Thursday.
Ukrainian forces are poised to make use of the arrival of hotter climate and new weapons from the West, together with tanks, for a counteroffensive geared toward dislodging Russian troops from occupied areas.
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