UN-backed human rights experts decry new evidence of torture of Ukrainian POWs by Russia
UN-backed human rights experts say they have gathered new evidence of "horrific" torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by their Russian jailers, and that such practices could amount to war crimes. The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said on Friday that human rights violations have been widespread since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade the country more than two years ago, and that civilian suffering since then only continues to mount. "New evidence strengthens the commission's previous findings that torture used by Russian authorities in Ukraine and in the Russian ...