The reports reveal a 'disturbing pattern of systematic abuse across all areas where Russia's forces are engaged,' U.S. official says.
Service members walk near a damaged school, next to a police building in Kramatorsk in the Donbas Region of eastern Ukraine on April 5. Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images
The U.S. has "credible information" that a Russian military unit in Ukraine's Donetsk region "executed Ukrainians who were attempting to surrender, rather than take them into custody," a top American official told the United Nations Wednesday.If true, this would be a violation of a core principle of the laws of war," said Beth Van Schaack, the U.S.
Van Schaack added that the U.S. also has "credible reports of individuals killed execution-style with their hands bound; bodies showing signs of torture; horrific accounts of sexual violence against women and girls."These images and reports suggest that atrocities are not the result of rogue units or individuals; they, rather, reveal a deeply disturbing pattern of systematic abuse across all areas where Russia’s forces are engaged," Van Schaack said.
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