"UN Report: Russia Executed 32 Ukrainian POWs and Routinely Tortured Captives"

The United Nations reported that Ukrainian prisoners of war are being executed by Russian captors at an alarming rate, with 32 POWs executed in the past three months, along with widespread torture, ill-treatment, and dire conditions of detention. The report also details violence against Ukrainian civilians in areas occupied by Russia, as well as criticism of Kyiv for contravening International Humanitarian Law. The U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine also concluded that Russia committed human rights violations and war crimes during its invasion in 2022.