Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War
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GENEVA — U.N. human rights investigators say Ukrainian prisoners of war appear to be facing “systematic” mistreatment — including torture — both when they are captured and when they are transferred into areas controlled by Russian forces or Russia itself.
A monitoring mission set up by the U.N. human rights office says Russia must address such mistreatment that amounts to a grave violation of international law.
The findings emerged as the mission issued its first comprehensive look at rights violations and abuses committed by both sides of the war between Feb. 1 and July 31 — covering the first months after Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The mission, which tracks the situation daily, has been monitoring rights in Ukraine ever since a conflict involving Russian-backed insurgents began in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The foreign ministers of France and Ukraine have slammed Russia’s “mock referendums” in the occupied territories and Moscow’s escalating threats of a nuclear war.
Catherine Colonna of France and Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine spoke at a joint news conference in Kyiv.
Russia and its “unnecessary, illegal, unjust war, threatens the very foundations of the rules-based international order,” Colonna said. “France has been at your side since the start of the Russian aggression and will remain so until Ukraine recovers its full sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Kuleba said the Russian votes about the separation from Ukraine and joining Russia present a “performance which won’t have any consequences and influence on the politics and diplomacy.”
He added that...
