Ukraine children executed by Russia, says UN, amid other suffering including torture

Russia inflicted unimaginable struggling on tens of millions of Ukrainian youngsters and violated their rights since its full scale invasion of Ukraine begun in 2022, a brand new report by the United Nations Human Rights Workplace mentioned on Friday.

“Their rights have been undermined in each facet of life, leaving deep scars, each bodily and psychosocial,” mentioned UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk.

The Russian Mission in Geneva didn’t reply to a request for remark when contacted by Reuters.

“Within the 4 areas of Ukraine that have been illegally annexed by the Russian Federation in 2022, youngsters have been significantly affected by violations of worldwide human rights legislation … together with abstract executions, arbitrary detention, conflict-related sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment”, the report mentioned.

5 boys and two ladies have been summarily executed in 2022 and 2023, with the report noting that the wilful killing of civilians was a warfare crime and a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.

Some youngsters had to participate in military-patriotic coaching, together with singing the Russian anthem, and to comply with the Russian faculty curriculum – in violation of worldwide humanitarian legislation.