Russian troops intentionally used the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare during the siege, the Global Rights Compliance has claimed in a new report published Thursday.
Russian forces used ruthless starvation tactics during the siege, report claimsUkrainian civilians resorted to drinking from puddles and radiators batteries as Russian forces used ruthless starvation tactics during their 85-day siege of Mariupol City, a new report has revealed.
Investigators allege the Kremlin also obstructed humanitarian evacuation routes and prevent the distribution of aid to trapped civilians as part of a 'ruthless plan to starve the city's population into submission'. Investigators allege that Moscow struck a power line, blacking out half of the city, and then carried out a four-day shelling that cut power and gas to over 450,000 residents as winter temperatures reached -12.4°C.
Investigators analysed more than 1.5 billion square metres of satellite imagery, photographs, videos, official public statements, and other digital data that was collected between May 2022 and February 2024. Ukraine set up distribution points across the city to provide citizens with access to basic necessities, but these also fell under Russian attack, according to the report.
Similarly, investigators allege Russian forces attacked the Mariupol Drama Theatre, where several hundred people were residing, despite signs in Russian indicating children were inside. Pedestrians walk past a destroyed car following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 7, 2022
'It does so because - in the aggregate - the seemingly isolated attacks against OIS, when paired with associated violations and crimes related to the weaponisation of humanitarian aid, the denial of humanitarian access and humanitarian evacuations, filtration, and arrests of humanitarian actors, reveal a deliberately calculated method of warfare carried out by pro-Russian forces who intentionally employed several starvation tactics as a means to an end.
A US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the agreement said the G7 leaders' official statement due out Friday will leave the door open to trying to confiscate the Russian assets entirely. The EU instead has set aside the profits being generated by the frozen assets. That pot of money is easier to access.
A burnt-out car is seen outside a building damaged by the overnight Russian missile attack in the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine on May 31, 2024
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