"Stunned by the number of executions": UN Commission on Human Rights provides evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine

This was reported by AP.

UN Commission experts found evidence of Russian war crimes in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine.

In their conclusions, they cited the testimony of former prisoners about beatings, electric shocks, and forced undressing in Russian detention centers. The Commission also expressed concern about executions in four regions of Ukraine.

"We were stunned by the large number of executions in the areas we visited. Currently, the Commission is investigating such deaths in 16 cities and towns," Commission Chairman Erik Møse said. 

He also noted that his team has already received and is documenting "true allegations regarding many other cases of executions."  Thus, in June, the Commission visited Bucha, where the Ukrainian authorities discovered mass graves and bodies scattered on the streets after the withdrawal of Russian troops at the end of March.

So far, UN Commission investigators have visited 27 cities and towns, as well as graves and places of imprisonment and torture. In addition, 150 victims and witnesses were interviewed. In particular, an unspecified number of Russian soldiers committed sexual and gender-based violence against people between the ages of 4 and 82.

"Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it came to the conclusion that war crimes were committed in Ukraine," Erik Møse said.

The US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Taylor, urged the Commission to continue its investigation.

"The evidence of Russia's atrocities is becoming more and more terrible every day. Mass burials were recently discovered in Izyum, where there are traces of torture on the bodies," she said.