Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry expressed frustration at U.N. human rights monitors after they reported that both Kyiv and Moscow had committed rights violations against civilians and prisoners of war.
U.N. human rights monitors said the vast majority of the human rights violations they documented were committed by Russian forces.
Russia committed 621 cases of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of civilians, while Ukraine committed 91, they said. They also alleged that Russia was responsible for 109 cases of sexual violence, and Ukraine for 24. Brutal treatment of prisoners of war is common on both sides, the mission said.President Bidenin an address to the Canadian parliament in Ottawa on Friday.
10,000 Ukrainian civilians, mostly the elderly and disabled, face the brunt of living in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Those who haven’t fled fierce fighting live in “very dire conditions,” spending days facing “intense shelling” in underground shelters, said the ICRC’s spokesman Umar Khan, ReutersGlobal impactSergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov used a Brazilian alias to study at an unidentified American university in Washington D.C., obtain a driver’s license in Virginia and make connections with “persons of interest,” before unsuccessfully trying to get a job.
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