The Biden administration plans to add more sanctions against Russia amid reports of increased brutality and potential war crimes in Ukraine.
The “Bucha massacre was deliberate,” Kuleba tweeted Sunday, along with images of slaughtered civilians. “Russians aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can.”Residents in areas occupied by Russian forces in Ukraine described summary executions of civilians, rape by a Russian soldier, and other abuses against Ukrainians in a Human Rights Watch released Sunday.
“The cases we documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians,”, Europe and Central Asia director at HRW, said in the report, which documented alleged atrocities in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and other Russian-occupied areas of the country. “Rape, murder, and other violent acts against people in the Russian forces’ custody should be investigated as war crimes.
Russia, which has a history of human rights abuses under Putin, including in its aerial bombardment of Syria half a decade ago, is already under International Criminal Court investigation for war crimes. ICC prosecutorMarch 2 that his office “had already found a reasonable basis to believe crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court had been committed, and had identified potential cases that would be admissible.
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