Posted on 11/28/2022 4:53:18 AM PST by bert
The reports come as Russia faces mounting outrage from the international community for numerous alleged human rights abuses in Ukraine
Ukrainian citizens have reportedly been tortured, raped and summarily executed by Russian soldiers during the country's invasion of Ukraine, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack claimed last week.
The reports come as Russia faces mounting outrage from the international community for numerous alleged human rights abuses, including possible war crimes, during its invasion of Ukraine.
For instance, Russian soldiers are believed to have murdered residents of Bucha, where dozens of bodies were found in the streets, and mass graves were reportedly uncovered in the cities of Lyman and Izium, according to Reuters.
"We are nine months into what has become a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and President [Vladimir] Putin’s war against Ukraine continues to result in devastating human costs," said Van Schaack. "Thousands of civilians [have been] killed or wounded; at least 13 million Ukrainian citizens [have been] forced to flee their homes; historic cities have been literally pounded to rubble."
“We have mounting evidence that this aggression has been accompanied by systemic war crimes committed in every region where Russia’s forces have been deployed.”
Beth Van Schaack, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Van Schaack added that Russia's invasion violates the United Nations Charter and that there is evidence that war crimes have been "committed in every region where Russia’s forces have been deployed," including "deliberate, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against the civilian population and elements of the civilian infrastructure."
Beth Van Schaack, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (credit: US DEPARTMENT OF STATE/PUBLIC DOMAIN/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) Beth Van Schaack, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (credit: US DEPARTMENT OF STATE/PUBLIC DOMAIN/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) "We’re seeing custodial abuses of civilians and POWs and also efforts to cover up these crimes," she said.
The ambassador noted that there have been reports of Ukrainian civilians being summarily executed with their hands bound, as well as corpses displaying signs of torture and accounts of sexual violence against women and children and other gender-based violence, adding that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General's Office has identified thousands of potential war crimes.
Van Schaack noted that more evidence of atrocities is expected to surface as Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine are liberated.
"I want to also call attention to the fact that Russia’s breaches of international law include the construction of a vast transnational infrastructure of filtration operations to which thousands of Ukrainian citizens have now been subjected," she said.
Van Schaack said that as part of this process, Russian troops reportedly conducted summary executions, and thousands of Ukrainian children in occupied areas were forcibly deported to Russia in violation of international law.
Van Schaack: Russia's conduct in Ukraine consistent with wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria She said that these incidents illustrate "a deeply disturbing pattern of reports of abuse across all areas where we’re seeing Russia’s forces engage," noting that there are similarities between the war in Ukraine and previous Russian military engagements in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria.
They continuously support the "Russian invasion that violates the United Nations Charter and that there is evidence that war crimes have been "committed in every region where Russia’s forces have been deployed," including "deliberate, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against the civilian population and elements of the civilian infrastructure."
They are opponents of liberty and freedom
US diplomat says the moon is made of cheese .
Quick, give the Ukes lots more money!!! That’ll show them durn Rooskies
Vindman?
Why didn’t you ping all of your fellow moonbats bert?
They just asked for another $55 billion.
any idea as to the reliability of the source of information?? There have been a ton of fabricated stories associated with the Ukraine-Russsia war.
The woman who made up these claims admitted on video that it is a lie.
Surprisingly, these fake stories are propped every time Ukraine is getting caught on real atrocities.
US diplomat says....
Bwahahahaha... Quick! $100 billion more!
No surprise there. Ask anyone who had to exist under the jackboot of Russian occupation and they’ll tell the same thing. Russians are to be despised as the subhuman garbage they are.
They do, but via private reply.
Being in different countries, they have different start times.
no, the stories appear every time Russia retreats, like they just did in Kherson
because then we get to see what they left behind ... and it’s never pretty
You sanctimonious A$$. There is no freedom and democracy in Ukraine to be defending. We DON’T have a dog in this fight. It’s time for this country to start taking care of our own damn problems, and let the rest of the world do the same. How many kids do you have in the military to go die for that little faggot?
I was just yanking his chain.
And I’m just causing some trouble.
Not really as there will be another 25 threads of UKR v RUS propaganda…
Beth Van Schaack, a Biden appointee. What does that tell you?
Even if this story is true, I don’t care what two crappy countries halfway around the world do to each other. What I do care about is how much time and money we are spending on this non problem instead of addressing our own real problems. There is also the added consideration that US Diplomats lie a lot and are likely lying here. The FTX scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of the corruption associated with the transfer of our wealth to the very corrupt Ukrainian government. They did get a lot of democrats elected though, didn’t they? We would do well to stay completely out of this conflict.
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