Russia has committed crimes against the disappearance and humanity of torture in its war in Ukraine, a United Nations investigation has concluded.
Crimes were determined as a systematic, part of a systematic, comprehensive attack against citizens, the United Nations Independent International Commission of International Commission said in a new report to be formally submitted next week.
The report said, “The Commission concludes that Russian officials have implemented disappearance and torture as crimes against humanity.”
“Both were determined as part of a comprehensive and systematic attack against the civilian population and a coordinated state policy,” he said.
The clear nature of that statement was unusual for the United Nations investigators.
The report stated that a large number of citizens were detained in areas under Russian control, and many of them were more transferred to custody facilities in Ukraine or Russia.
Russian authorities “commit additional violations and crimes during these prolonged custody. Many victims have been missing for months and years, and some died in captivity,” said this.
Those officers have systematically failed to provide information about the hideout of prisoners.
The report said that Russia worked with the intention of removing people who disappeared from “security of law”.
The Commission said that the prisoners of the war have also been victims of torture and disappearance, in violation of the International Human law, the Commission said.
Investigations stated that Russia “used to torture systematically” against some categories of detainees to remove “information, forced and intimidating”.
The most cruel forms were used during interrogation, while Russian authorities “have systematically used sexual violence as torture against male prisoners”.
The Commission said that it is also studying the increasing number of events related to killing or injuring Russian soldiers or surrendering to Ukrainian soldiers, which forms a war crime.
The report said, “The testimony of uninhabited soldiers from the Russian armed forces indicates that there is a policy not to take prisoners but to kill them.”
Russia began its full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The United Nations Human Rights Council established its highest level investigation in March that year to investigate violations and abuses during the conflict.
The independent report will be presented before the council next Tuesday.
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