UN Monitoring Group presents new reports on the human rights situation in Ukraine and the treatment of POWs
Head of the Mission, Matilda Bogner, announced this.
The report on the human rights situation covers the period from August 1, 2022, to January 31, 2023. UN representatives testified that Russian troops are killing and torturing civilians, illegally detaining and kidnapping people and children, and committing sexual violence acts.
The report notes that more than 8 000 civilians have been killed, and about 14 thousand others have been injured since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
About 90% of those previously illegally detained by Russians reported that Russian troops and security services tortured and abused them in detention, in some cases including sexual violence. Among these civilians were five underage boys.
A total of 133 cases of sexual violence were recorded there.
Regarding the report on the treatment of prisoners of war, the UN is concerned about the alleged 25 arbitrary executions of Russian POWs supposedly committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Bogner stated that the UN is aware of investigations launched by the Ukrainian prosecutor's office into five alleged cases involving 22 victims of unlawful executions of prisoners of war.
At the same time, the UN recorded 15 cases of executions of Ukrainian POWs, 11 of which were carried out by Wagner PMC mercenaries.
While working on the report, representatives of the mission interviewed more than 400 POWs from both sides.
At the same time, unlike Ukraine, the Russian side did not grant the mission access to the official places of the internment of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Ombudsman Lubinets says that during meetings with the Head of the UN Monitoring Mission and the UN coordinator in Ukraine, they never raised the issue of the treatment of Russian prisoners of war.
"Moreover, I would like to hear the indisputable facts and arguments on which the Mission's conclusions about alleged violations by the Ukrainian side are based," he wrote.
