Russian Forces Tortured Some Ukrainian Victims To Death, Says UN Probe

Erik Mose said his team had "collected further evidence indicating that the use of torture by Russian armed forces in areas under their control has been widespread and systematic".

Russia's torture methods in parts of Ukraine it occupied have been so brutal that it tortured some of its victims to death, the head of a UN-mandated investigative body said on Monday.

Erik Mose, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva his team had "collected further evidence indicating that the use of torture by Russian armed forces in areas under their control has been widespread and systematic".

"In some cases, torture was inflicted with such brutality that it caused the death of the victim," he said.