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Torture, rape, killings: new evidence of Russian atrocities in Ukraine

11.04.2022 07:00
Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman has unveiled new evidence of torture, rape and killings committed by the invading Russian forces, according to news reports.
Police officers investigate next to a killed civilian woman lying on the ground next to a car, in Bucha, the town which was retaken by the Ukrainian army, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Police officers investigate next to a killed civilian woman lying on the ground next to a car, in Bucha, the town which was retaken by the Ukrainian army, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.PAP/EPA/Roman Pilipey

In a statement posted on Facebook on Sunday, Lyudmila Denisova wrote: 

“In the village of Makariv in the Kyiv region, an 80-year-old man had his hands cut off in front of his daughter. He died of his wounds.”

She added: “In Irpen, a 20-year-old pregnant woman was raped by two racists. She lost a child.”

‘Bodies found shot near church’

According to Denisova, “during the occupation of the villages of Yagide and Lukashivka in the Chernihiv region, the Russian invaders set up their headquarters in the Church of the Ascension.”

She said: “It found the bodies of people, probably locals, who had been shot dead by the Russian military.”

Meanwhile, “In the Kherson region, a 60-year-old man was beaten in the presence of his daughter with butts and sticks,” Denisova added.

‘Terrible tortures’

She estimated that “after the liberation of the settlements from the racist occupiers, tens and hundreds of tortured, maimed people remained, who were subjected to terrible tortures.”

“Such is the face of the ‘liberation’ that came to Ukraine,” Denisova said. 

“Terror, ill-treatment and killing of civilians in the occupied territories are war crimes,” Denisova wrote, citing the Statute of the International Military Tribunal, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva Convention.

Monday is day 47 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(pm/gs)

Source: PAPfacebook.com