Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
(Human Rights Council. Fifty-eighth session. 24 February–4 April 2025. Agenda item 4. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention)
Source: OHCHR (UN GA)
Three years of armed conflict in Ukraine have led to over 12,654 civilians killed and more than 29,392 injured, as at 24 February 2024, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The actual number of casualties is likely considerably higher. The toll on civilian lives has been devastating. The Commission has continued to document a wide array of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and corresponding crimes, committed by Russian authorities during their full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The present report focuses on enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual violence and the killing or wounding of soldiers hors de combat.
The Commission’s most important findings during its third mandate are that Russian authorities have committed the crimes against humanity of torture and enforced disappearances. Both crimes were perpetrated pursuant to a coordinated State policy, in a widespread and systematic manner, in all oblasts of Ukraine of which areas came under Russian control, and with the aim of furthering the military objectives of the Russian Federation. In the commission of the crimes, Russian authorities have targeted categories of persons whom they perceived as a threat or who refused to cooperate with them.
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Source: OHCHR (UN GA)
Three years of armed conflict in Ukraine have led to over 12,654 civilians killed and more than 29,392 injured, as at 24 February 2024, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The actual number of casualties is likely considerably higher. The toll on civilian lives has been devastating. The Commission has continued to document a wide array of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and corresponding crimes, committed by Russian authorities during their full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The present report focuses on enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual violence and the killing or wounding of soldiers hors de combat.
The Commission’s most important findings during its third mandate are that Russian authorities have committed the crimes against humanity of torture and enforced disappearances. Both crimes were perpetrated pursuant to a coordinated State policy, in a widespread and systematic manner, in all oblasts of Ukraine of which areas came under Russian control, and with the aim of furthering the military objectives of the Russian Federation. In the commission of the crimes, Russian authorities have targeted categories of persons whom they perceived as a threat or who refused to cooperate with them.
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