The organization, a European body that aims to promote cooperation between member states in the military and humanitarian field, released the report last Thursday. According to the document, international human rights have been violated on several occasions in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Most of the crimes were allegedly committed by the Russian army.
For example, there is talk about torture of Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops, CBS News reports. And several torture chambers were found at a summer camp in Butya, about 20 miles from the capital Kiev, which had been occupied by Russian troops for more than two weeks, according to investigators.
“In Zabuchchya, a village in the Butha district, 18 mutilated bodies of murdered men, women and children were found in a basement: some had their ears cut off, others had their teeth pulled out,” the report said.
Recruitment
The report also says that Russia, which faces a shortage of deployable manpower, is recruiting troops in Ukraine from its occupied territories and sending them to the front without training. “The escalation and the rising number of victims are starting to stir anger even among pro-Russian communities. Several videos posted online reportedly show the wives of conscripts in Donetsk and Luhansk demanding help for their husbands and asking why men without military background are forced to fight.”
The sorting centers of the Russian occupier are also discussed in the report. “Ukrainian citizens are separated from others there and then simply disappear. Detainees are also being handed over to authorities in the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where some are sentenced to death.”
In a Facebook post, the Russian embassy in the United States dismissed the report as an attempt by Washington “to destabilize the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”