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Prisoner executions, other abuses found on both sides in Ukraine war

The U.N. human rights office cited summary executions, use of soldiers as human shields, torture and other inhumane treatment carried out by both Russian and Ukrainian forces.

A graduation ceremony for Ukrainian military officers
A graduation ceremony for Ukrainian military officers (AN/President of Ukraine)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. human rights office found evidence that prisoners of war were executed, tortured and abused by both sides in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers killed at least 25 Russian prisoners of war and wounded combatants, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, said in a new report on Friday that found Russia also executed at least 15 Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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