U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to use “every tool available” to pursue those responsible for “apparent atrocities” in Ukraine.
Human Rights Watch said it has documented “several cases” of war crimes it says were perpetrated by Russian soldiers, including allegations of repeated rape, executions without proper trials and “other cases of unlawful violence.”it interviewed 10 people, including witnesses, victims and residents, to document the events. The Washington Post has not independently verified the accounts.
Among the interviewees was a woman who told the rights organization that she was raped repeatedly by a Russian soldier inside a school where she had been sheltering near Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s east. She told the organization that her face and neck were cut with a knife. The rights group said it was aware of two cases of summary execution, in which a person is accused of a crime and then killed without a trial. One case involved the execution of six men, and another involved the killing of one man of five who had been rounded up, according to Human Rights Watch, which interviewed witnesses, including a woman who said she was the mother of one of the executed men.
“The cases we documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians,” the rights organization’s said in the report. “Rape, murder and other violent acts against people in the Russian forces’ custody should be investigated as war crimes.”In light of the mass graves recently seen in Bucha, a suburb near the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said they have asked the International Criminal Court to visit the graves to gather evidence of potential war crimes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described Russia’s attack on his country as “genocide.” Russia has denied the allegations.
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