Russia carried out extrajudicial civilian killings in Ukraine, Amnesty International says
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Allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine demand a thorough investigation, the head of Amnesty International said following the release of the new report.
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The Russian military has carried out extrajudicial killings of civilians in Ukraine, Amnesty International said, citing witness accounts of its own.
The advocacy group published new testimony Thursday from civilians living close to the capital of Kyiv in towns and villages that Russian forces had occupied after invading on Feb. 24. Ukrainian forces re-entered the outskirts of the capital over the weekend following the Russian withdrawal.
The civilians interviewed by Amnesty International’s crisis response investigators described deliberate killings, unlawful violence and widespread intimidation by Russian troops across Kyiv’s suburbs.
A 46-year-old woman from the village of Bohdanivka, which is just east of Kyiv, said Russian troops entered her home on March 9 and forced her family into their boiler room, Amnesty International claims.
“They forced us in and slammed the door. After just a minute they opened the door, they asked my husband if he had cigarettes. He said no, he hadn’t smoked for a couple of weeks. They shot him in his right arm. The other said, ‘Finish him,’ and they shot him in the head,” the woman said. Her identity was not published.
“He didn’t die right away. From 9.30 p.m. to 4 a.m. he was still breathing, though he wasn’t conscious. I begged him … ’If you can hear me, please move your finger.’ He didn’t move his finger, but I put his hand on my knee and squeezed it. Blood was flowing out of him. When he took his last breath, I turned to my daughter and said, ‘It seems daddy has died.’”
On March 3 in Vorzel, a village just west of Bucha where hundreds of murdered civilians were reportedly found over the weekend, 18-year-old Kateryna Tkachova told Amnesty she was at home with her parents when they left to go outside into the streets where Russian tanks were.
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