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Russia may be committing war crimes in Ukraine, UN human rights chief says

Russia may be committing war crimes in Ukraine, UN human rights chief says


Russia may be committing war crimes in Ukraine, UN human rights chief says
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Michelle Bachelet, addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, called on Russia to withdraw its troops.

Bachelet said that her office, which deploys nearly 60 UN human rights monitors in Ukraine, had verified 77 incidents in which medical facilities were damaged, including 50 hospitals.

Matilda Bogner, head of the UN human rights mission in Ukraine, told Reuters in Geneva on Tuesday that thousands of people may have died during the month-long siege of Mariupol, a southern port city of 400,000 people laid to waste.

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