EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES

THE chair of the UN-mandated independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said on Friday that it had concluded that war crimes had been committed in Ukraine following investigations conducted in four regions of the country.

Erik Møse told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council did not say explicitly who had committed the crimes but the commission’s work was focused on areas of Ukraine previously occupied by Russian forces in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.

Russia was called on to respond to the allegations at the council meeting but its seat was left empty. It has denied deliberately attacking civilians during what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Investigators from the commission, which was created by the UN Human Rights Council in March, visited 27 places and interviewed more than 150 victims and witnesses. |