Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova spoke about the atrocities of Russians in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Kherson regions:
After the liberation of the settlements from the racist occupiers, tens and hundreds of tortured, maimed people remained, who were subjected to terrible tortures – such is the face of the “liberation” that came to Ukraine.
In the village of Makariv in the Kyiv region, an eighty-year-old man had his hands cut off in front of his daughter. He died of his wounds.
In Irpen, a 20-year-old pregnant woman was raped by two racists. She lost a child.
In the Kherson region, a 60-year-old man was beaten in the presence of his daughter with butts and sticks.
During the occupation of the villages of Yagide and Lukashivka in the Chernihiv region, the russian invaders set up their headquarters in the Church of the Ascension. It found the bodies of people, probably locals, who had been shot dead by the russian military.
Terror, ill-treatment and killing of civilians in the occupied territories are war crimes under the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and violations of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.