Holding Russia to account for its atrocities in Ukraine
Evidence is mounting that, as part of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s forces have targeted civilians and unlawfully deported citizens of Ukraine from their own country. Targeting civilians and the unlawful deportation of civilians are war crimes. “The aggression against Ukraine is a manifest violation of the UN Charter,” Beth Van Schaack, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice, said November 21.
Van Schaack pointed to reports of civilians being killed execution-style, with their hands bound, and “horrific accounts of gender-based violence,”…
