Evidence of war crimes by Russians in Ukraine.
Amnesty International said today that there was compelling evidence that Russian troops were committing war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside the Ukrainian capital in February and March.
Civilians also suffered abuses such as “reckless shootings and torture” at the hands of Russian forces during their failed attack on Kiev in the early stages of the occupation, the rights group said in a report.
“These are not isolated incidents. “These are part of a model wherever Russian forces have control of a town or a village,” Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis adviser, told in a news conference in Kiev.
But Russia denies its forces committed abuses, as Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating more than 9,000 possible war crimes by Russian troops, and the International Criminal Court is also examining suspected war crimes.
The Amnesty report is the latest to document alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces when they occupied an area northwest of Kiev, including the city of Bucha, where Ukrainian authorities say more than 400 civilians were killed.
